Bipartisan coalition launched to discuss amendments to the law stipulating procedures for retrials. Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to death for robbery and murder in the murder of a family of four in Shizuoka Prefecture 58 years ago, but it took more than 40 years for him to be retried last year.
So far, 134 members of the Diet from both the ruling and opposition parties have announced their participation in the League of Diet Members, and they confirmed their intention to continue discussing matters such as legal revisions.