Makoto Saito (left) — co-head of the legal team representing the family of Koki Miyata, a man who was acquitted of a 1985 murder after a retrial in 2019 — speaks during a news conference after a ruling by the Fukuoka High Court on Monday. | JIJI
JIJI
Jul 28, 2026
The Fukuoka High Court on Monday ordered the Kumamoto Prefectural Government to jointly pay damages with the Japanese government over a wrongful conviction in a 1985 murder case in Kumamoto.
Presiding Judge Takeshi Okada overturned a lower court ruling that had ordered only the national government to pay damages.
The judge ordered the national and prefectural governments to jointly pay a total of some ¥23.8 million ($145,320) in damages to the family of Koki Miyata, who died in October 2020 after being acquitted in March 2019 in a retrial of the murder case.
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