Inquiry Needed into Japan’s Flawed Criminal Justice System

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Iwao Hakamata waves to supporters while meeting with his sister Hideko, several weeks after his acquittal on retrial for the 1966 murder of a family of four, in Shizuoka, Japan, October 14, 2024. © 2024 Kyodo via AP Photo Next week, Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on October 27. The new Diet should open an inquiry into the country’s troubled criminal justice system.On October 9, Japan’s Public Prosecutors Office waived its right to appeal the acquittal after the retrial of 88-year-old Iwao…

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