SHIZUOKA, Japan - A Japanese court has decided to compensate an 89-year-old man with about 217 million yen ($1.4 million) for nearly half a century of wrongful detention, following his acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case, a source familiar with the matter said Monday.
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