THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 13, 2023 at 18:47 JST
A lawyer for Iwao Hakamada shows a photo, right, of the bloodstained evidence used to convict him, and a photo of the results of prosecutors’ experiment on blood under similar conditions, at a news conference in November 2022. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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