The Supreme Court has finalized a lower court ruling ordering a publisher to delete its lists of areas where people discriminated against as descendants of the country’s feudal outcasts live …
A former lawmaker of Nippon Ishin no Kai pleaded guilty at the Tokyo District Court on Thursday to statutory rape of a 12-year-old girl. Prosecutors said Tamotsu Shiiki, 58, who …
The Tokyo District Court has ruled as invalid Jetstar Japan’s suspension of two cabin crew members in relation to a pay dispute that took place two years ago. Presiding Judge …
Funai Electric Chairperson Yoshiaki Harada filed with the Tokyo District Court on Monday for court-led rehabilitation of the company, despite the court’s recent decision to initiate bankruptcy procedures for the …
Supporters of homeless individuals clashed with police and court officials enforcing an eviction order Sunday at a former labor welfare center in the Airin district of the city of Osaka’s …
The Osaka High Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of a 35-year-old man for fatally injuring his 2-year-old adopted daughter. The defendant, Takahiro Imanishi, was originally charged in 2018 with …
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Pref. – The head of a public prosecutor’s office in Shizuoka Prefecture directly apologized on Wednesday to Iwao Hakamata, who was recently acquitted in a retrial decades after …
Osaka – The Osaka High Court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling sentencing doctor Yoshikazu Okubo to 18 years in prison for murdering an ALS patient at the request …
Tokyo police have sent public prosecutors papers on three people involved in criminal investigations into machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki on suspicion of making, using and destroying documents containing falsified information. …
Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, former chairman of publisher Kadokawa, says he is innocent of bribery allegations, in his first trial hearing at the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday. | Jiji Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, …