{"id":53373,"date":"2023-03-13T18:55:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T09:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/japanese-man-iwao-hakamada-granted-retrial-45-years-on-death-row"},"modified":"2023-03-13T18:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T09:55:05","slug":"japanese-man-granted-retrial-after-45-years-on-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53373","title":{"rendered":"Japanese man granted retrial after 45 years on death row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iwao Hakamada, 87, was convicted of four murders in 1968 but granted \u2018temporary release\u2019 in 2014 after new evidence emerged<\/p>\n<p>A court in Japan has granted a retrial to a man \u2013 thought to be the world\u2019s longest-serving death row inmate \u2013 who was sentenced to hang for the murders of a family of four almost six decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo high court ruled on Monday that Iwao Hakamada, 87, should be tried again for the crimes in a decision campaigners said was a \u201cstep towards justice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/japanese-man-iwao-hakamada-granted-retrial-45-years-on-death-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iwao Hakamada, 87, was convicted of four murders in 1968 but granted \u2018temporary release\u2019 in 2014 after new evidence emergedA court in Japan has granted a retrial to a man \u2013 thought to be the world\u2019s longest-serving death row inmate \u2013 who was sentenced &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[205,41,1038,53,88,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amnesty-international","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-human-rights","category-japan","category-law","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53374,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53373\/revisions\/53374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}