The chief prosecutor of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutors Office bows before Iwao Hakamata (second from right) after his acquittal on retrial for the murder of a family of four in 1966, along with his sister Hideko Hakamata (right) on November 27, 2024 in Hamamatsu, Japan.
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