The Sapporo High Court ruled Friday that the disparity in the weight of votes in July’s Upper House election was “in a state of unconstitutionality” but dismissed a demand that the result in the Hokkaido race be nullified. It was the third ruling among 14 similar lawsuits filed with high ...
Police in Guangdong province, China, have formally arrested a 70-year-old municipal assembly member from Aichi Prefecture for allegedly possessing illegal ...
A man from Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, was arrested Friday for allegedly inflicting bodily injury resulting in the death of the ...
An employee of Deutsche Bank AG’s Japanese brokerage unit was arrested Thursday on suspicion of bribery as the securities watchdog recommended penalties against the firm for excessive entertainment spending. Shigeru Echigo, a director of Deutsche Securities Inc.’s pension solution sales department, is suspected of ...
Prosecutors arrested an official of NTT East Corp. on Thursday for allegedly taking ¥17 million in bribes from an on-demand video service company in return for business orders, the prosecutors said. He was identified as Hirokazu Ishikawa, 48, a resident of Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, ...
The Fair Trade Commission has notified some 60 firms, including a subsidiary of Kansai Electric Power Co., that they will be fined for rigging bids, sources said Thursday. The FTC found that about 80 companies violated the anti-monopoly law by rigging the bids for ...
Prosecutors arrested six people, including the mother of a Lower House lawmaker, on Wednesday as part of the vote-buying and campaign-funding scandal embroiling the Tokushukai hospital group. They are suspected of providing local politicians and others with ¥60 million in vote-buying funds for the ...
The wife of a condemned Aum Shinrikyo figure was arrested Wednesday for allegedly trying to forcibly recruit an acquaintance into Aleph, the cult’s successor sect, Osaka police said. Yuki Niimi, 36, the wife of death-row inmate Tomomitsu Niimi, 49, is suspected of using her ...
The Tokyo High Court will drop the retrial plea for the late Sadamichi Hirasawa, who was condemned over the infamous 1948 “Teigin Incident” murder case, because his adopted son, who was pursuing the appeal, died in October. Takehiko Hirasawa, who had filed the plea, ...
Lawyers for a man sentenced to death in a multiple-murder case from 1966 call for a retrial, saying new evidence proves their client was wrongfully convicted.
The Tokyo High Court upheld on Wednesday a lower court ruling ordering the metropolitan government to pay damages to religious group Aleph, previously known as Aum Shinrikyo, for releasing an investigative report that attributed the 1995 attempted murder of the national police chief to ...
Tokyo District Court oders a hospital to pay ¥38 million in damages to a 60-year-old Tokyo man for hardships suffered after it was discovered he was switched at birth.
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by a 47-year-old man who was sentenced to death for killing two women and dismembering their corpses in Hyogo Prefecture in 2005. The Supreme Court’s No. 1 Petty Bench effectively finalized the death sentence for Kazuya Takayanagi, ...
The parents of a 17-year-old high school student who committed suicide last year said Monday they will file a damages suit against his classmates and teachers, arguing their son’s death was caused by school bullying. They will seek roughly ¥88 million in compensation in ...
The Osaka District Court determines that it is unconstitutional to set any age difference between widows and widowers for pension entitlement.
