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[Breaking News]Japan startup fails again to put lander on Moon

TOKYO, Japan, June 6 Kyodo - Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace Inc., suggests at a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, that the Japanese startup's lunar lander failed in its attempt to land on the Moon's surface, following its first unsuccessful try in 2023. The Tokyo-based company believes its lunar lander Resilience impacted the Moon's surface after failing to slow sufficiently during its descent, dashing ispace's hope of becoming the country's first private company to reach the lunar surface successfully. (Kyodo)

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Japan ispace lunar lander fails in Moon landing

Japanese startup ispace Inc. CEO Takeshi Hakamada holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, after the company's lunar lander apparently crashed on the Moon, failing in its attempt to become the first private firm in Asia to touch down on it.

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Japan ispace lunar lander fails in Moon landing

Japanese startup ispace Inc. CEO Takeshi Hakamada holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, after the company's lunar lander apparently crashed on the Moon, failing in its attempt to become the first private firm in Asia to touch down on it.

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Japan ispace lunar lander fails in Moon landing

Japanese startup ispace Inc. CEO Takeshi Hakamada holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, after the company's lunar lander apparently crashed on the Moon, failing in its attempt to become the first private firm in Asia to touch down on it.

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Japan ispace lunar lander fails in Moon landing

Japanese startup ispace Inc. CEO Takeshi Hakamada holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, after the company's lunar lander apparently crashed on the Moon, failing in its attempt to become the first private firm in Asia to touch down on it.

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Japan startup fails again to put lander on Moon

Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace Inc., suggests at a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, that the Japanese startup's lunar lander failed in its attempt to land on the Moon's surface, following its first unsuccessful try in 2023. The Tokyo-based company believes its lunar lander Resilience impacted the Moon's surface after failing to slow sufficiently during its descent, dashing ispace's hope of becoming the country's first private company to reach the lunar surface successfully.

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Japan startup fails again to put lander on Moon

Takeshi Hakamada (C), founder and CEO of ispace Inc., suggests at a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, that the Japanese startup's lunar lander failed in its attempt to land on the Moon's surface, following its first unsuccessful try in 2023. The Tokyo-based company believes its lunar lander Resilience impacted the Moon's surface after failing to slow sufficiently during its descent, dashing ispace's hope of becoming the country's first private company to reach the lunar surface successfully.

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Japan startup lander may reach Moon on Apr. 26

Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of Japanese space startup Ispace Inc., holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 12, 2023. He announced the company's self-developed Moon lander may touch down on the celestial body as early as April 26, a move that would make it the first private company in the world to reach the Moon.

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Ex-death row inmate urges end to death penalty in Japan

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Iwao Hakamada, a former death row inmate who was freed in March 2014 after nearly 48 years in prison following a court decision to reopen his case, seeks an end to Japan's death penalty during an event in Shizuoka, central Japan, on Nov. 24, 2014, as his elder sister Hideko looks on.

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Former death row inmate attends meeting against death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (R), a former death row inmate who was freed in March 2014 after nearly 48 years in prison following a court decision to reopen his case, and his sister Hideko, attend a civic meeting seeking an end to the death penalty, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 11, 2014. Hakamada, a 78-year-old former professional boxer, was sentenced to death for the murder of four members of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1966, but was freed after the Shizuoka District Court approved DNA test results that showed blood found on five items of clothing said to have been worn by the culprit was not Hakamada's.

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Former death row inmate attends meeting against death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (R), a former death row inmate who was freed in March 2014 after nearly 48 years in prison following a court decision to reopen his case, and his sister Hideko, attend a civic meeting seeking an end to the death penalty, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 11, 2014. Hakamada, a 78-year-old former professional boxer, was sentenced to death for the murder of four members of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1966, but was freed after the Shizuoka District Court approved DNA test results that showed blood found on five items of clothing said to have been worn by the culprit was not Hakamada's.

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Former death-row inmate Hakamada hospitalized

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo shows Iwao Hakamada, a 78-year-old former death-row inmate who was released following a court decision in March 2014 to reopen the 1966 murder case that led to his conviction. Hakamada, a former professional boxer, has been hospitalized for pneumonia in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, his lawyers said Aug. 29, 2014.

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Man once on death row returns to hometown

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (C), 78, a former professional boxer, arrives at JR Hamamatsu Station in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on May 27, 2014. Hakamada, sentenced to death, returned to his hometown for the first time since his release from nearly half a century of detention following a court decision to reopen a 1966 murder case.

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Man once on death row returns to hometown

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (C), 78, a former professional boxer, holds a press conference in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on May 27, 2014. Hakamada, sentenced to death, returned to his hometown that day for the first time since his release from nearly half a century of detention following a court decision to reopen a 1966 murder case.

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Man once on death row returns to hometown

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (L), 78, a former professional boxer, holds a press conference in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on May 27, 2014. Hakamada, sentenced to death, returned to his hometown that day for the first time since his release from nearly half a century of detention following a court decision to reopen a 1966 murder case.

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Ex-boxer gets honorary belt after release from death row

OSAKA, Japan - Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada (C), released from death row after nearly 48 years of detention, poses with his sister Hideko (L) and incumbent Japanese champions after receiving an honorary belt in Tokyo on May 19, 2014.

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Death-row inmate freed after 48 years of detention

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Iwao Hakamada, 78, leaves the Tokyo Detention House (back) on March 27, 2014, after the Shizuoka District Court decided earlier in the day to reopen a 1966 murder case, suspend his death sentence and permit his release. The court said there is a possibility that investigative authorities fabricated incriminating evidence.

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Death-row inmate freed after 48 years of detention

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada, 78, gets into a car after being released from the Tokyo Detention House on March 27, 2014, after the Shizuoka District Court decided earlier in the day to reopen a 1966 murder case, suspend his death sentence and permit his release. The court said there is a possibility that investigative authorities fabricated incriminating evidence.

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Death-row inmate freed after 48 years of detention

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (L), 78, accompanied by his sister Hideko (R), 81, leaves the Tokyo Detention House on March 27, 2014, after the Shizuoka District Court decided earlier in the day to reopen a 1966 murder case, suspend his death sentence and permit his release. The court said there is a possibility that investigative authorities fabricated incriminating evidence.

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Death-row inmate freed after 48 years of detention

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (L), 78, accompanied by his sister Hideko (R), 81, leaves the Tokyo Detention House on March 27, 2014, after the Shizuoka District Court decided earlier in the day to reopen a 1966 murder case, suspend his death sentence and permit his release. The court said there is a possibility that investigative authorities fabricated incriminating evidence.

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Death-row inmate freed after 48 years of detention

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (L), 78, accompanied by his sister Hideko (R), 81, leaves the Tokyo Detention House on March 27, 2014, after the Shizuoka District Court decided earlier in the day to reopen a 1966 murder case, suspend his death sentence and permit his release. The court said there is a possibility that investigative authorities fabricated incriminating evidence.

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Court decides to reopen 1966 murder of 4

SHIZUOKA, Japan - A lawyer holds a banner that reads "A retrial to start" in front of the Shizuoka District Court in Shizuoka Prefecture on March 27, 2014, after the court decided to reopen a 1966 quadruple murder case for which former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada has been on death row for more than 30 years.

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1966 murder case

NAGOYA, Japan - Lawyers for Iwao Hakamada, who was sentenced to death over a 1966 multiple murder case, head for the Shizuoka District Court in Shizuoka Prefecture with his sister Hideko (far R) on Dec. 2, 2013, to submit a statement calling for a retrial. The lawyers said new evidence indicated their client was wrongfully convicted.

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Evidence in 1966 murder case

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Lawyer Hideyo Ogawa holds an item of evidence related to the 1966 murder of a family of four in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, at a press conference in Shizuoka city on Dec. 12, 2011, after prosecutors disclosed 176 items of evidence related to the case earlier in the day. Iwao Hakamada, 75, who has been convicted in the case and is on death row, is seeking a retrial.

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Ex-judge not allowed to see death row inmate

TOKYO, Japan - Norimichi Kumamoto, a former judge at the Shizuoka District Court, looks dejected outside the Tokyo Detention House on July 2 after he was denied permission to visit a man he had sentenced to death for the 1966 murder of a family of four even though he believes the man was innocent. Kumamoto, 69, who presided over the trial of Iwao Hakamada, 71, went public in March and said he convicted the man as he was unable to persuade the two other judges in the trial of the defendant's innocence.

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Ex-judge confesses he believed convicted murderer was not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Norimichi Kumamoto (C), a former Shizuoka District Court judge, tells an anti-death penalty assembly in Tokyo on March 9 that he thought a man who received a death sentence for the 1966 murder of a family of four was ''not guilty'' when he was involved in the man's trial. However, he agreed to the death sentence after the two other judges involved in the case made the decision, despite preparing a 360-page document citing reasons for the innocence of Iwao Hakamada, who has been in prison for over 40 years while seeking a retrial for the murders. Kumamoto's remark came a day before Hakamada's 71st birthday.

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Champion boxers, supporters file pleas for death-row convict

TOKYO, Japan - Former world junior middleweight champion Koichi Wajima (L) and former world junior flyweight champion Katsuo Tokashiki (2nd from L), campaign with other supporters for a retrial at the Supreme Court of Iwao Hakamada, a former pro boxer on death row, arguing he was wrongly convicted of killing a family of four in 1966.

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Ex-pro boxer on death row loses retrial bid

TOKYO, Japan - Hideko Hakamada, an elder sister of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada, speaks at a news conference Aug. 27 in Tokyo after the Tokyo High Court rejected his plea for a retrial. Iwao has been on death row for 36 years for the 1966 murder of a family of four in Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Ex-pro boxer on death row seeks retrial

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Iwao Hakamada. Lawyers for the former pro boxer who has been on death row for 36 years for the 1966 murder of a four-member family in Shizuoka Prefecture, filed an appeal for a retrial with the Supreme Court Sept. 1, 2004, after the Tokyo High Court rejected his plea for a retrial on Aug. 27. The date of the photo is unknown. (Kyodo)

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Ex-pro boxer on death row loses retrial bid

TOKYO, Japan - Hideko Hakamada, an elder sister of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada, speaks at a news conference Aug. 27 in Tokyo after the Tokyo High Court rejected his plea for a retrial. Iwao has been on death row for 36 years for the 1966 murder of a family of four in Shizuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Japanese woman speaks in conference in Oslo against death penalty

Hideko Hakamada (C), the 83-year-old sister of Iwao Hakamada, 80, who spent 48 years in prison before being released in 2014 to receive a retrial in a 1966 murder case, speaks at the World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Oslo on June 22, 2016. Hakamada, who insists on her brother's innocence, told the audience how the brother had spent the years behind bars, including suffering a deterioration in mental health after his death sentence was finalized. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court to verify DNA test in Hakamada murder case

Photo shows Iwao Hakamada, a former professional boxer who was freed in 2014 after spending decades on death row. A Japanese high court plans to conduct an experiment to see if it is possible to replicate a DNA test result which was the basis of a lower court's decision to reopen a 1966 murder case and free Hakamada, his defense team said Aug. 13, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Film shows struggle of released death row inmate

Photo taken Dec. 4, 2015, in Tokyo shows Kim Sung Woong, a film director. Kim's latest documentary film, "Freedom Moon," focuses on freed death-row inmate Iwao Hakamada, who was convicted of quadruple murder, and his sister Hideko, who worked tirelessly for his exoneration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-judge not allowed to see death row inmate

TOKYO, Japan - Norimichi Kumamoto, a former judge at the Shizuoka District Court, looks dejected outside the Tokyo Detention House on July 2 after he was denied permission to visit a man he had sentenced to death for the 1966 murder of a family of four even though he believes the man was innocent. Kumamoto, 69, who presided over the trial of Iwao Hakamada, 71, went public in March and said he convicted the man as he was unable to persuade the two other judges in the trial of the defendant's innocence. (Kyodo)

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Ex-judge confesses he believed convicted murderer was not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Norimichi Kumamoto (C), a former Shizuoka District Court judge, tells an anti-death penalty assembly in Tokyo on March 9 that he thought a man who received a death sentence for the 1966 murder of a family of four was ''not guilty'' when he was involved in the man's trial. However, he agreed to the death sentence after the two other judges involved in the case made the decision, despite preparing a 360-page document citing reasons for the innocence of Iwao Hakamada, who has been in prison for over 40 years while seeking a retrial for the murders. Kumamoto's remark came a day before Hakamada's 71st birthday. (Kyodo)

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Top court rejects retrial plea by ex-boxer on death row

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Iwao Hakamada, 72, a former professional boxer on death row since being convicted of the 1966 murder of a family of four in Shimizu, now part of the city of Shizuoka. The Supreme Court said March 25 it has turned down a retrial plea filed by Hakamada. (Kyodo)

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Champion boxers, supporters file pleas for death-row convict

TOKYO, Japan - Former world junior middleweight champion Koichi Wajima (L) and former world junior flyweight champion Katsuo Tokashiki (2nd from L), campaign with other supporters for a retrial at the Supreme Court of Iwao Hakamada, a former pro boxer on death row, arguing he was wrongly convicted of killing a family of four in 1966. (Kyodo)

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Ex-death row inmate urges end to death penalty in Japan

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Iwao Hakamada, a former death row inmate who was freed in March 2014 after nearly 48 years in prison following a court decision to reopen his case, seeks an end to Japan's death penalty during an event in Shizuoka, central Japan, on Nov. 24, 2014, as his elder sister Hideko looks on. (Kyodo)

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Former death row inmate attends meeting against death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (R), a former death row inmate who was freed in March 2014 after nearly 48 years in prison following a court decision to reopen his case, and his sister Hideko, attend a civic meeting seeking an end to the death penalty, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 11, 2014. Hakamada, a 78-year-old former professional boxer, was sentenced to death for the murder of four members of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1966, but was freed after the Shizuoka District Court approved DNA test results that showed blood found on five items of clothing said to have been worn by the culprit was not Hakamada's. (Kyodo)

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Former death-row inmate Hakamada hospitalized

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo shows Iwao Hakamada, a 78-year-old former death-row inmate who was released following a court decision in March 2014 to reopen the 1966 murder case that led to his conviction. Hakamada, a former professional boxer, has been hospitalized for pneumonia in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, his lawyers said Aug. 29, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Evidence in 1966 murder case

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Lawyer Hideyo Ogawa holds an item of evidence related to the 1966 murder of a family of four in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, at a press conference in Shizuoka city on Dec. 12, 2011, after prosecutors disclosed 176 items of evidence related to the case earlier in the day. Iwao Hakamada, 75, who has been convicted in the case and is on death row, is seeking a retrial. (Kyodo)

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Top court sends back 1966 murder case to lower court over retrial

Iwao Hakamada, 84, a former professional boxer who was sentenced to death in a 1966 quadruple murder case, is pictured with his sister Hideko at his home in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Dec. 23, 2020, after the Supreme Court sent back the case to the Tokyo High Court, rejecting its refusal to reopen it. Based on the top court decision dated Dec. 22, the Tokyo High Court will again examine whether to reopen the case of Hakamada, who was freed in 2014 after spending nearly half a century on death row.

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Top court sends back 1966 murder case to lower court over retrial

Iwao Hakamada, 84, a former professional boxer who was sentenced to death in a 1966 quadruple murder case, is pictured with his sister Hideko at his home in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Dec. 23, 2020, after the Supreme Court sent back the case to the Tokyo High Court, rejecting its refusal to reopen it. Based on the top court decision dated Dec. 22, the Tokyo High Court will again examine whether to reopen the case of Hakamada, who was freed in 2014 after spending nearly half a century on death row.

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Top court sends back 1966 murder case to lower court over retrial

Iwao Hakamada, 84, a former professional boxer who was sentenced to death in a 1966 quadruple murder case, is pictured at his home in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Dec. 23, 2020, after the Supreme Court sent back the case to the Tokyo High Court, rejecting its refusal to reopen it. Based on the top court decision dated Dec. 22, the Tokyo High Court will again examine whether to reopen the case of Hakamada, who was freed in 2014 after spending nearly half a century on death row.

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Top court sends back 1966 murder case to lower court over retrial

Iwao Hakamada, 84, a former professional boxer who was sentenced to death in a 1966 quadruple murder case, is pictured at his home in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Dec. 23, 2020, after the Supreme Court sent back the case to the Tokyo High Court, rejecting its refusal to reopen it. Based on the top court decision dated Dec. 22, the Tokyo High Court will again examine whether to reopen the case of Hakamada, who was freed in 2014 after spending nearly half a century on death row.

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Hakamada case

Supporters of Iwao Hakamada, who was sentenced to death for a 1966 quadruple murder but released in 2014 under a district court ruling after 48 years in detention, hold banners in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on June 11, 2020, seeking a retrial for the former professional boxer at the Supreme Court so that he may be exonerated. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pope Francis in Japan

Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada (C), who was freed in 2014 after spending about 25 years on death row, leaves Tokyo Dome after attending a mass conducted by Pope Francis on Nov. 25, 2019. Baptized in a Tokyo prison, the 83-year-old, awaiting a retrial, was invited to the papal mass by the Catholic Church in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pope Francis in Japan

Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada (R), who was freed in 2014 after spending about 25 years on death row, meets the press after attending a mass conducted by Pope Francis at Tokyo Dome on Nov. 25, 2019. Baptized in a Tokyo prison, the 83-year-old, awaiting a retrial, was invited to the papal mass by the Catholic Church in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pope Francis in Japan

Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada (R), who was freed in 2014 after spending about 25 years on death row, meets the press after attending a mass conducted by Pope Francis at Tokyo Dome on Nov. 25, 2019. Baptized in a Tokyo prison, the 83-year-old, awaiting a retrial, was invited to the papal mass by the Catholic Church in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pope Francis in Japan

Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada (C, R), who was freed in 2014 after spending about 25 years on death row, attends a mass conducted by Pope Francis at Tokyo Dome on Nov. 25, 2019. Baptized in a Tokyo prison, the 83-year-old, awaiting a retrial, was invited to the papal mass by the Catholic Church in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo