For L.G.B.T.Q. people in Japan, to live openly is a radical act. Figuring out who they are can be an isolating struggle. We spoke with eight Japanese about how they discovered their identities. But ...

One of the highlights of Resort 21 is the Kurofune train, also known as the Black Ship Train. It pays homage to Commodore ...

We take a glance into the brain of a fruit fly in unprecedented detail and look to history to find out how to win a Nobel prize. One of the most-cited researchers in neuroscience is facing claims ...

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row more than five decades ago.

Hakamada’s case is one of Japan’s longest and most famous legal sagas, and has attracted widespread public interest, with ...

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A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on ...

A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted 88-year-old Hakamata, who was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1968 for murdering a ...

In 2023, 107 of the 115 people on death row had their death sentences finalised putting them at risk of execution ...

An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court, after it found ...

Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japanese criminal justice.