Lawyers for a 98-year-old woman who served a prison term for the 1979 murder of a man in the town of Osaki in Kagoshima Prefecture filed the fifth request for a retrial on Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/09/japan/crime-legal/1979-kagoshima-murder-retrial-plea/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #kagoshima #falseconvictions