TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government on Tuesday nominated Junko Koeda, an economics professor at Waseda University, as a new member of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board. The nomination of Koeda to ...

Defense lawyers and supporters of Iwao Hakamada expressed disgust and bewilderment over prosecutors’ decision to seek a murder conviction in the retrial of the 87-year-old who had spent decades ...

They plan to inform the Shizuoka District Court on July 10 that they intend to prove the guilt of Iwao Hakamada during a retrial that he was finally granted this year, sources said. Although ...