Iwao Hakamata, a former death row inmate who was acquitted in a retrial for the 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture, on Thursday filed a damages lawsuit against the central and prefectural governments.

Hakamata, 89, sought some ¥600 million in damages, a record amount against

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