National Oct 5, 2013

City pulls new birth registering form

The city of Akashi in Hyogo Prefecture has to scrap its brand new birth registration form because there's no section asking if children were born out of wedlock.

National Oct 2, 2013

Akashi first city to remove 'illegitimate' birth filing

Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, said Tuesday it has stopped asking on birth registration forms whether a baby was born out of wedlock, the first city in Japan to do so. However, the new form is optional: It doesn’t replace an existing form with “legitimate” and ...

Crime & Legal Feb 23, 2013

Court appointed lawyers appeal dismissal of charges over 2001 fatal mass crush in Akashi

Court appointed lawyers acting as prosecutors filed an appeal Friday against a ruling earlier this week that dismissed the indictment of a former senior police officer over a 2001 human crush on a pedestrian bridge that resulted in 11 deaths in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture. ...