Japan's Cabinet approved a revised bill that allows prosecutors to appeal a court's retrial order only in exceptional cases, paving the way for the retrial system to be revised for the first time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/15/japan/crime-legal/retrial-cabinet-approval/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #justiceministry #diet #falseconvictions #shoshimaekawa #ldp

A Liberal Democratic Party panel on Wednesday approved a government proposal to ban prosecutors "in principle" from appealing a retrial order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/13/japan/politics/ldp-panel-retrial-approved/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #justiceministry #japanesecourts #diet #falseconvictions #shoshimaekawa #iwaohakamata

Social media posts critical of the Justice Ministry's attitude are increasing over content of a draft bill to reform Japan's retrial system, which has drawn severe objections — and even angry outbursts — from lawmakers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/05/japan/crime-legal/retrial-reform-criticism-online-posts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #diet #ldp #justiceministry #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions #socialmedia #tomomiinada

The Justice Ministry and the Liberal Democratic Party have been at odds over how to revise Japan's retrial system, which has been criticized for procedures that can take decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/22/japan/politics/ldp-ministry-retrial-revision/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #japanesecourts #diet #ldp #justiceministry #shoshimaekawa #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions

The elder sister of former death-row inmate Iwao Hakamata, 90, who was acquitted in a high-profile retrial, on Saturday criticized the Justice Ministry's bill to reform the nation's retrial system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/18/japan/crime-legal/hakamata-sister-retrial-system-protest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #iwaohakamata #japanesecourts #falseconvictions #justiceministry #ldp

Retrial and wrongful conviction experts have released a joint statement opposing a Japanese government council's controversial proposal to reform the retrial system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/07/japan/crime-legal/japan-retrial-system-reform-opposition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #justiceministry #falseconvictions #ldp

In the first such case in recent history, Japan’s top court granted a retrial Tuesday for a deceased man who had been serving a life sentence for committing a murder in Shiga Prefecture in 1984. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/25/japan/crime-legal/retrial-murder-deceased-defendant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #shiga #supremecourt #japanesepolice #falseconvictions

A government panel’s subcommittee has approved the outline of a review of Japan’s retrial system that would continue to allow prosecutors to file appeals against a court’s decision to start a retrial. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/03/japan/crime-legal/retrial-system-prosecutors-appeal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions #justiceministry

Lawyers for a 98-year-old woman who served a prison term for the 1979 murder of a man in the town of Osaki in Kagoshima Prefecture filed the fifth request for a retrial on Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/09/japan/crime-legal/1979-kagoshima-murder-retrial-plea/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #kagoshima #falseconvictions

Japan's Justice Ministry unveiled a draft plan to revise the retrial system at a meeting of a subgroup of the Legislative Council on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/japan/crime-legal/retrial-system-review-draft/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #justiceministry #japanesecourts #falseconvictions #shizuoka #iwaohakamata