Hakamata had worked at the factory located in what was then Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture. After spending decades on death row, Hakamata was acquitted in a retrial at the Shizuoka District Court in ...

HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka -- The chief of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutors Office apologized to a former death row inmate at his home here on Nov. 27 after he was acquitted over the murders of ...

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