{"id":70401,"date":"2025-03-25T14:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T05:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/25\/iwao-hakamada-worlds-longest-death-row-prisoner-japan-compensation-after-release"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T05:09:41","slug":"exonerated-prisoner-awarded-1-4m-after-46-years-spent-on-death-row-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70401","title":{"rendered":"Exonerated prisoner awarded $1.4m after 46 years spent on death row in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iwao Hakamada, the world\u2019s longest serving death row prisoner, had been wrongly convicted of a quadruple murder<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world\u2019s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4m in compensation, an official has said.<\/p>\n<p>The payout represents 12,500 yen ($83) for each day of the 46 years that Iwao Hakamada spent in detention, most of it on death row when each day could have been his last.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/25\/iwao-hakamada-worlds-longest-death-row-prisoner-japan-compensation-after-release\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iwao Hakamada, the world\u2019s longest serving death row prisoner, had been wrongly convicted of a quadruple murderA Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world\u2019s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4m in compensation, an of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,1038,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70401","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70402,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70401\/revisions\/70402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}