Iwao Hakamada is, in many ways, Japan's Rubin Carter. His life had, until recently, been spent in solitary confinement for a series of murders he almost certainly didn't commit. The JPBA (Japanese Professional Boxing Association) have been fighting for his innocence. Amnesty international also campaign for a retrail (https://www.amnesty.org.uk/hakamada-iwa ... -row-japan)
Well recently there's been a manga released in Japan about the case, with 1 8 page episode released a 6 months. Today saw episode 2 in Japanese become available, along with a translation of episode 1.
Below is a link to the English version, and it's rather telling (even with some creative license) how bad things were for them to get the highly controversial confession from Hakamada.
http://jpbox.jp/hakamada/sd/sd1-e.html
Iwao Hakamada manga translated into English
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