Tokyo, March 28, 2025 (AFP) - Japan minister calls for probe into 'unopenable' retrial system

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Japan's justice minister on Friday asked a legal panel to review the country's retrial system after the acquittal of the world's longest-serving death row prisoner last year heightened scrutiny of a system often labelled the "Unopenable Door". Keisuke Suzuki tasked the panel of legal experts with scrutinising Japan's retrial process to recommend any necessary revisions, after it courted criticism for being too snail-paced to safeguard victims of......

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