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.According to Iwao Hakamata's laywers, the sum is likely the highest-ever criminal compensation granted in Japan.The request for compensation had been submitted to the court in January after Hakamata's acquittal was finalized last October, marking the end of his family's decades-long fight to free him from death row in connec…READ FULL ARTICLE
