Fukuoka, July 27 (Jiji Press)–Fukuoka High Court on Monday ordered the prefectural government of Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, to pay damages jointly with the Japanese government over the wrongful conviction in the 1985 Matsubase 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 yen 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. In March 2025, Kumamoto District Court found prosecutorial misconduct and ordered the national government to pay 23.8 million yen in damages, while rejecting claims against the prefectural government over the police investigation. Miyata served a prison sentence after being convicted over the fatal stabbing of a man in what was then the Kumamoto town of Matsubase, now part of the city of Uki. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
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