20:04 (11:04)â˘Hakamada's Half-Century Fight for Freedom Ends
â¨The newspapers report extensively on the prosecution's decision not to appeal Iwao Hakamada's acquittal in a 1966 quadruple murder case, leading to his final exoneration after 58 years (Asahi, Chunichi, Kyodo, NHK, Sankei, TBS, Yomiuri). In other news, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their foundational work in machine learning and neural networks (Mainichi, Nikkei).