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Retrial of man over 1986 murder

KANAZAWA, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Supporters and attorneys of Shoshi Maekawa, who served seven years in prison after being found guilty of the 1986 murder of a junior high school student, hold up banners announcing his acquittal in a retrial in front of the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court in Ishikawa Prefecture, on July 18, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Retrial of man over 1986 murder

Supporters and attorneys of Shoshi Maekawa, who served seven years in prison after being found guilty of the 1986 murder of a junior high school student, hold up banners announcing his acquittal in a retrial in front of the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court in Ishikawa Prefecture, on July 18, 2025.

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S. Korea court overturns acquittal of opposition presidential hopeful

Supporters of Lee Jae Myung, the South Korean main opposition Democratic Party's presidential candidate, gather in front of the Supreme Court in Seoul on May 1, 2025. The top court overturned the same day a lower court's acquittal of Lee, who was charged with violating the election law by making false statements in 2021.

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S. Korea court overturns acquittal of opposition presidential hopeful

Police officers stand guard in front of South Korea's Supreme Court in Seoul on May 1, 2025. The top court overturned the same day a lower court's acquittal of Lee Jae Myung, the main opposition Democratic Party's presidential candidate, who was charged with violating the election law by making false statements in 2021.

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Hakamata appears in public

SHIZUOKA, Japan, Oct. 14 Kyodo - Iwao Hakamata, 88, receives flower bouquets during a meeting with his supporters in Shizuoka, central Japan, on Oct. 14, 2024. His recent acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case was finalized on Oct. 9. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Japanese man's acquittal of 1966 murders finalized

SHIZUOKA, Japan, Oct. 9 Kyodo - Shizuoka prefectural police chief Takayoshi Tsuda speaks to reporters at the prefectural police headquarters in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on Oct. 9, 2024, after it was announced the previous day that prosecutors will not appeal the recent acquittal of Iwao Hakamata, 88, in his retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder for which he had been sentenced to death. (Kyodo)

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Documentary film on Iwao Hakamata

Hideko Hakamata (L) appears on the stage of a movie house in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2024, as a documentary film on her 88-year-old brother, Iwao Hakamata, is released the same day, depicting his life through the recent acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case in Shizuoka Prefecture for which he had been sentenced to death. Standing by Hideko is Chiaki Kasai, who directed the film.

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Documentary film on Iwao Hakamata

Hideko Hakamata (L) appears on the stage of a movie house in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2024, as a documentary film on her 88-year-old brother, Iwao Hakamata, is released the same day, depicting his life through the recent acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case in Shizuoka Prefecture for which he had been sentenced to death. Standing by Hideko is Chiaki Kasai, who directed the film.

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Hakamata appears in public

Iwao Hakamata, 88, receives flower bouquets during a meeting with his supporters in Shizuoka, central Japan, on Oct. 14, 2024. His recent acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case was finalized on Oct. 9.

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Hakamata appears in public

Iwao Hakamata (L), 88, waves to his supporters during a meeting in Shizuoka, central Japan, on Oct. 14, 2024. His recent acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case was finalized on Oct. 9.

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Hakamata speaks in public

Iwao Hakamata, 88, speaks during a meeting with his supporters in Shizuoka, central Japan, on Oct. 14, 2024, marking the first time he has spoken in public after his recent acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case was finalized on Oct. 9.

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Hakamata speaks in public

Iwao Hakamata, 88, speaks during a meeting with his supporters in Shizuoka, central Japan, on Oct. 14, 2024, marking the first time he has spoken in public after his recent acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case was finalized on Oct. 9.

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Japanese man's acquittal of 1966 murders finalized

Shizuoka prefectural police chief Takayoshi Tsuda (far R) speaks to reporters at the prefectural police headquarters in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on Oct. 9, 2024, after it was announced the previous day that prosecutors will not appeal the recent acquittal of Iwao Hakamata, 88, in his retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder for which he had been sentenced to death.

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Japanese man's acquittal of 1966 murders finalized

Shizuoka prefectural police chief Takayoshi Tsuda speaks to reporters at the prefectural police headquarters in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on Oct. 9, 2024, after it was announced the previous day that prosecutors will not appeal the recent acquittal of Iwao Hakamata, 88, in his retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder for which he had been sentenced to death.

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Japanese man's acquittal of 1966 murders finalized

Shizuoka prefectural police chief Takayoshi Tsuda speaks to reporters at the prefectural police headquarters in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on Oct. 9, 2024, after it was announced the previous day that prosecutors will not appeal the recent acquittal of Iwao Hakamata, 88, in his retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder for which he had been sentenced to death.

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Japanese man's acquittal of 1966 murders to be finalized

Hideko Hakamata speaks during a press conference in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on Oct. 8, 2024, after it was announced that prosecutors will not appeal the recent acquittal of her 88-year-old brother, Iwao Hakamata, in his retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder for which he had been sentenced to death.

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Japanese man's acquittal of 1966 murders to be finalized

Hideko Hakamata smiles during a press conference in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on Oct. 8, 2024, after it was announced that prosecutors will not appeal the recent acquittal of her 88-year-old brother, Iwao Hakamata, in his retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder for which he had been sentenced to death.

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Japanese man's acquittal of 1966 murders to be finalized

Hideko Hakamata smiles during a press conference in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on Oct. 8, 2024, after it was announced that prosecutors will not appeal the recent acquittal of her 88-year-old brother, Iwao Hakamata, in his retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder for which he had been sentenced to death.

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Death penalty sought for man over 2019 Kyoto Animation arson attack

KYOTO, Japan, Dec. 7 Kyodo -The prosecution on Thursday demanded the death penalty for the man who has admitted to the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation Co. that killed 36 people, while his defense sought an acquittal or lesser sentence, citing what they said was his mental incompetence.In seeking capital punishment for Shinji Aoba, 45, in the lay judge trial at the Kyoto District Court, a prosecutor said his conduct was "premeditated, extremely dangerous and truly cruel, having a significant impact on society."(Kyodo)

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Death penalty sought for man over 2019 Kyoto Animation arson attack

KYOTO, Dec. 7 Kyodo - The prosecution on Thursday demanded the death penalty for the man who has admitted to the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation Co. that killed 36 people, while his defense sought an acquittal or lesser sentence, citing what they said was his mental incompetence. (Kyodo)

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Rapper MHD Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Murder - Paris

Maitre Philippe Ohayon speaks out following his client's acquittal in the case of the murder of a man following a brawl involving rapper MHD, in Paris on September 23, 2023. The rapper was sentenced of the murder, in 2018, of a young man of 23, lynched as part of a settling of scores between rival Parisian gangs. Photo by Florian Poitout/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rapper MHD Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Murder - Paris

Maitre Philippe Ohayon speaks out following his client's acquittal in the case of the murder of a man following a brawl involving rapper MHD, in Paris on September 23, 2023. The rapper was sentenced of the murder, in 2018, of a young man of 23, lynched as part of a settling of scores between rival Parisian gangs. Photo by Florian Poitout/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rapper MHD Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Murder - Paris

Maitre Philippe Ohayon speaks out following his client's acquittal in the case of the murder of a man following a brawl involving rapper MHD, in Paris on September 23, 2023. The rapper was sentenced of the murder, in 2018, of a young man of 23, lynched as part of a settling of scores between rival Parisian gangs. Photo by Florian Poitout/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rapper MHD Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Murder - Paris

Maitre Philippe Ohayon speaks out following his client's acquittal in the case of the murder of a man following a brawl involving rapper MHD, in Paris on September 23, 2023. The rapper was sentenced of the murder, in 2018, of a young man of 23, lynched as part of a settling of scores between rival Parisian gangs. Photo by Florian Poitout/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rapper MHD Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Murder - Paris

Maitre Philippe Ohayon speaks out following his client's acquittal in the case of the murder of a man following a brawl involving rapper MHD, in Paris on September 23, 2023. The rapper was sentenced of the murder, in 2018, of a young man of 23, lynched as part of a settling of scores between rival Parisian gangs. Photo by Florian Poitout/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Acquitted ex-Credit Suisse employee

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Hatta, a former employee of Credit Suisse Securities (Japan) Ltd., holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 16, 2014. He filed a 500 million yen damages suit against the Japanese government following his acquittal for tax evasion earlier in the year.

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Destroyer-boat collision case

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the stern of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru (front), after a collision with the Aegis destroyer Atago (back) of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in the Pacific just outside Tokyo Bay in February 2008. Seen in the middle is a patrol boat of the Japan Coast Guard. The Tokyo High Court upheld on June 11, 2013, a lower court acquittal of two MSDF sailors over the collision that killed two fishermen.

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Spying acquittal in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Kang Jong Heon, a Korean resident of Japan, answers reporters' questions in Seoul on Jan. 24, 2013, after the Seoul High Court acquitted Kan, who was sentenced to death in the 1970s after being accused of spying for North Korea.

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Murder acquittal

OSAKA, Japan - A May 2008 file photo shows the site (upper R) where the abandoned body of Miho Kosugi, 15, was found in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture. The Osaka High Court on Dec. 12, 2012, acquitted the defendant, Katsumi Naka, of murder, reversing a lower court's life sentence.

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Ozawa's acquittal finalized

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, a former president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2012, after his acquittal on charges of involvement in falsifying political fund reports was finalized. Prosecutors said the same day they had given up the right to appeal the ruling.

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Prosecutors say convicted Nepalese not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyers defending Govinda Prasad Mainali smile during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2012, after prosecutors said in a retrial at the Tokyo High Court earlier the same day that the 46-year-old Nepalese man convicted of killing a Japanese woman in 1997 is not guilty, making his acquittal certain.

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Convicted Nepalese to be acquitted

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali and his wife Radha wave at their home in Kathmandu on Oct. 29, 2012, as his retrial in a high-profile murder case began the same day at the Tokyo High Court. Japanese prosecutors said at the court in the retrial that the Nepalese man convicted of killing a Japanese woman in 1997 is not guilty, making his acquittal certain.

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Convicted Nepalese to be acquitted

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali waves at his home in Kathmandu on Oct. 29, 2012, as his retrial in a high-profile murder case began the same day at the Tokyo High Court. Japanese prosecutors said at the court in the retrial that the Nepalese man convicted of killing a Japanese woman in 1997 is not guilty, making his acquittal certain.

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DPJ decides to lift Ozawa's party membership suspension

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa. The ruling DPJ decided on May 8, 2012, to lift the party membership suspension of Ozawa following his acquittal the previous month of charges of falsifying political funds reports.

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DPJ decides to lift Ozawa's party membership suspension

TOKYO, Japan - Azuma Koshiishi (standing), secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a meeting of DPJ executives at the parliament building in Tokyo on May 8, 2012. The ruling DPJ decided the same day to lift the party membership suspension of former leader Ichiro Ozawa following his acquittal the previous month of charges of falsifying political funds reports. At the far right is former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

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Top court reinstates lay judges' acquittal in drug case

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyers for Kikuo Anzai display a banner that reads ''not guilty'' outside the Supreme Court in Tokyo, on Feb. 13, 2012. The Supreme Court acquitted the former business executive of drug smuggling charges in a closely watched case, after a high court found him guilty by overturning an initial acquittal by lay judges at a district court.

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Muraki assumes post after acquittal

TOKYO, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, a 54-year-old senior government official who was acquitted of fraud charges, fields questions from reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2010, after being presented with a letter of appointment for a new post of director general for policy planning at the Cabinet Office. Muraki was arrested over a postal abuse case in June 2009.

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Prosecutors ask for acquittal of man in murder retrial

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Toshikazu Sugaya (C), who was jailed for 17 years until last June over the 1990 murder of a 4-year-old girl before a fresh DNA test proved his innocence, arrives at the Utsunomiya District Court in Utsunomiya on Feb. 12, 2010, to attend the sixth session of his retrial. Prosecutors apologized in court for making him serve time in prison.

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Prosecutors ask for acquittal of man in murder retrial

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Toshikazu Sugaya, who was jailed for 17 years until last June over the 1990 murder of a 4-year-old girl before a fresh DNA test proved his innocence, arrives at the Utsunomiya District Court in Utsunomiya on Feb. 12, 2010, to attend the sixth session of his retrial. Prosecutors apologized in court for making him serve time in prison.

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Kin of convicted editor seek acquittal in Yokohama Incident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shinichi Ono (R) and his sister Nobuko Saito speak at a press conference at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on Feb. 17. Ono and Saito called for the conviction of their deceased father Yasuhito Ono, a wartime magazine editor, to be quashed during a retrial hearing at the Yokohama District Court of the so-called Yokohama Incident, a case concerning the repression of free speech during World War II in which Yasuhito Ono was convicted.

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S. Korean papers report on acquittal of Japanese journalist

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2015, shows South Korean newspapers reporting on the Seoul Central District Court's acquittal of a Japanese journalist, who was charged with defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye. Many of the newspapers criticized prosecutors' move to indict the reporter and the government's stance over freedom of the press. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe appreciates S. Korean court's acquittal of Japanese reporter

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2015, after South Korea's Seoul Central District Court acquitted a Japanese journalist who had been charged with defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article published in August last year. Abe said, "I appreciate (the court) handed down the acquittal." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prosecutors to appeal against acquittal of ex-AUM cult member

Undated photo shows former AUM Shinrikyo cult member Naoko Kikuchi. The Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office is preparing to appeal a high court ruling that found her not guilty of a 1995 parcel bombing at the Tokyo metropolitan government building, sources close to the matter said on Dec. 8, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mother of victim of elevator accident unsatisfied with verdict

Masako Ichikawa, 63, whose 16-year-old son Hirosuke Ichikawa (shown in photo in foreground) died in an elevator accident in 2006, expresses her dissatisfaction at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2015 regarding the Tokyo District Court's acquittal earlier that day of a former Schindler Elevator K.K. executive. The court handed down suspended prison terms to three people at a maintenance company which had taken over the maintenance and management of the elevator from Schindler two months before the accident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea top court upholds acquittal of man convicted of spying

Kang Jong Heon, a Korean resident of Japan who was sentenced to death for spying for North Korea, speaks in Seoul on Aug. 13, 2015, after South Korea's Supreme Court upheld a lower court's acquittal of him. Kang, arrested in the 1970s, was acquitted by the Seoul High Court in 2013 and prosecutors appealed the case to the highest court. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea top court upholds acquittal of man once convicted of spying

Kang Jong Heon, a 63-year-old Korean resident of Japan, speaks with reporters in Seoul on Aug. 13, 2015, after South Korea's Supreme Court upheld a lower court's acquittal of him in a spying case. Kang, a professor now living in Kyoto, was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1970s for spying for North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Top court upholds acquittal of ex-JR West heads over 2005 derailment

File photo taken in April 2005 shows a train derailment on the JR Fukuchiyama Line that killed 106 passengers and the driver while injuring 562 in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. In its decision dated June 12, 2017, the Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's acquittal of three former presidents of West Japan Railway Co. over the derailment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Acquittal finalized for Korean-Japanese accused of espionage

Lee Chul (C) smiles after South Korea's Supreme Court finalized his acquittal over espionage charges in a retrial on Nov. 26, 2015. The 67-year-old Korean born and raised in Japan was detained in South Korea in 1975 and sentenced to death for spying for North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court overturns not-guilty ruling for ex-lawmaker Muraoka

TOKYO, Japan - Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 10 after the Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court's acquittal and declared him guilty of concealing a 100 million yen political donation by a dental lobby to a Liberal Democratic Party faction in July 2001. (Kyodo)

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High court overturns not-guilty ruling for ex-lawmaker Muraoka

TOKYO, Japan - Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka (R) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 10 after the Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court's acquittal and declared him guilty of concealing a 100 million yen political donation by a dental lobby to a Liberal Democratic Party faction in July 2001. (Kyodo)