When Yoshie Shiratori was locked up in Japan's notorious Abashiri prison in 1943, the guards were well aware of his ...

Though Japan's crime rate remains relatively low, the spike in elderly crime is another... Japan's prison population getting old fast SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

His hands never trembled, not even as he slipped the noose around the necks of several condemned men. But now, years later, ...

A Hawaii inmate convicted of the 1994 murder of a Japanese psychic and her son was killed in prison, authorities have said.. Staff at the Halawa Correctional Facility in Aiea, outside Honolulu ...

HONOLULU (AP) — An inmate convicted of the 1994 murder of a Japanese psychic and her son has been killed in his Hawaii prison cell. Authorities say staff at the Halawa Correctional Facility ...

JAPAN: Prison on Shikoku. 3 minute read. TIME. April 13, 1942 12:00 AM GMT-4. T he fate of 366 Americans captured at Gilbert, Wake and Guam Islands was reported in a cable received last week by ...

This photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Raita Fukusaku, an inmate who was found dead in his cell at Halawa Correctional Facility in Aiea, Hawaii on ...

Since then, she has been held in a cell 23 hours a day at Chiba Prison near Tokyo. Donna Nelson remains in a Japanese prison and has been allowed only limited contact with the outside world.

HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii inmate convicted of the 1994 murder of a Japanese psychic and her son was killed in prison, authorities said. Staff at the Halawa Correctional Facility in Aiea… ...