Japan prosecutor apologizes to man acquitted of 1966 murders

A chief public prosecutor in central Japan on Wednesday apologized in person to an 88-year-old man who was acquitted in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case, after spending more than four decades on death row."I am deeply sorry that you were placed in an uncertain legal status for a long time," Hideo Yamada, chief of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutors Office told Iwao Hakamata during a visit to his house in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.Yamada added that he had "accepted the acquittal and does not regard Mr. Hakamata as the culprit."Hakamata's 91-year-old sister, Hideko, was b…READ FULL ARTICLE