Japan Supreme Court upholds man's death sentence for Manila murders

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a death sentence for a man convicted of murdering two other Japanese men in Manila in 2014 and 2015, rejecting his appeal to have the ruling overturned.Toshihiko Iwama, 49, was sentenced to death by the Kofu District Court in 2017 for murdering the two men from Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, for insurance payments. The judgment was upheld by the Tokyo High Court in 2019.Although Iwama had pleaded not guilty, Justice Ryosuke Yasunami said the defendant's actions had been "premeditated and highly self-interested, with a horrendous disregard for human l…READ FULL ARTICLE