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A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday.

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, a court said on Tuesday – roughly $85 for each day he was ...

From wiki - *"... Those on death row are not classified as prisoners by the Japanese justice system and the facilities in which they are incarcerated are not referred to as prisons. Inmates lack many ...

The “good guys” ignored the rules too. Many U.S. troops shot surrendering Japanese. After the war, hundreds of German prisoners were blown to bits when the Allies forced them to clear land ...

A Japanese court has awarded Iwao Hakamada more ... The payment works out at roughly the equivalent of £60 for every day he spent in prison. open image in gallery Iwao Hakamada with his sister ...

Hakamada was wrongly imprisoned and became the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner. He was recently released and awarded $1.4 million by the Japanese government as compensation.

A Japanese court convicted Hakamata and sentenced him to death in 1980. The 88-year-old had already spent 50 years in prison by the time of his release in 2014.