Iwao Hakamada: Japan’s Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Awarded $1.4M After 46 Years of Wrongful Conviction

In a historic verdict, 89-year-old Iwao Hakamada, once the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, has been awarded $1.4 million (¥217 million) as compensation for spending 46 years wrongfully imprisoned in Japan. Hakamada’s exoneration…