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TRIAL

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2020
Trump trial is Chief Justice Roberts' nightmare
The U.S. Supreme Court leader desperately wants to seem apolitical, but good luck with that.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 28, 2019
Japanese man pleads guilty to deadly knife rampage on shinkansen
A man pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering a passenger and trying to kill two others in a random knife attack on a shinkansen last year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2019
Abe offers 'heartfelt apology' to kin of leprosy patients who suffered due to Japan's segregation policy
The prime minister confirmed the u201csevere prejudice and discriminationu201d they endured as relatives of Hansenu2019s disease patients.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 12, 2019
Guilty ruling finalized for Chiba mother complicit in fatal abuse of 10-year-old daughter
A Chiba court said Friday a guilty verdict for a woman who was complicit in her husband's fatal assaults on their 10-year-old daughter has been finalized.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 19, 2018
Ex-head of bankrupt kimono firm gets 30 months in prison for fraud
The former head of a now-bankrupt kimono rental firm was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday for swindling banks of funds to keep his business running until its abrupt closure before Coming of Age Day earlier this year.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 10, 2018
German tourist admits to knife attack on Japanese man in Nagasaki while drunk
A German tourist indicted for attempted murder admitted Wednesday to stabbing a Japanese man in a random attack on a street in Nagasaki last year during his first court hearing.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 14, 2018
Former TV director gets suspended term for helping commentator take his own life
A former director of a TV program featuring conservative commentator Susumu Nishibe was given a suspended jail term on Friday for helping the 78-year-old kill himself in January.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 6, 2018
Killer of two buried alive at Saga soil treatment plant in 2014 gets life sentence
The Saga District Court on Monday sentenced a 69-year-old man to life in prison for murdering a man and a woman by burying them alive in the city of Saga in 2014.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 4, 2018
John Williams presents a made-in-Japan take on one of Kafka's classics
Written at the start of World War I and published in 1925 after its author's untimely death, Franz Kafka's "The Trial" is one of those novels everyone knows by reputation (or, in my case, from a fevered reading in high school).
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 4, 2018
Man pleads innocent to 2017 murder of Vietnamese girl near Tokyo
The former head of a parents association at a school in Chiba Prefecture pleads innocent to murdering a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl who attended the school.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 18, 2018
24-year prison term sought for ex-NHK reporter accused of serial rapes
Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a 24-year prison term for a former reporter with public broadcaster NHK, who was accused of raping three women in their 20s.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 14, 2018
Okinawa again loses suit aimed at halting U.S. Futenma base relocation
The Naha District Court on Tuesday rejected Okinawa's latest effort to stop the central government's ongoing construction work to relocate a U.S. military base within the island prefecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2016
Killer of two women gets life sentence in Nagoya
The Nagoya District Court has sentenced a man to life in prison for killing a woman in 2011 and causing his girlfriend's death in 2009.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 27, 2016
Medical marijuana advocate dies of cancer while on trial
A liver cancer patient who was fighting drug possession charges dies after spending his last days in court lobbying for medical use of marijuana in Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 6, 2016
Shinzato denies rape, says prejudging by public denies him 'fair trial' in Okinawa
An American man charged with raping and murdering a 20-year-old Okinawan woman says he did not intend to kill her.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 6, 2016
Prosecutors seek to halt yakuza trial after intimidation of lay judges
A trial involving a senior member of a crime syndicate may be halted after two men are held for menacing lay judges.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 22, 2016
Seven hours of video show changes in accused Tochigi killer's demeanor
The trial of accused killer Takuya Katsumata saw more than seven hours of his interrogation videos emerge, showing him flip-flop from one stance to another during the process.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 14, 2016
Second killer of Kawasaki boy gets prison term
The Yokohama District Court on Monday sentenced an 18-year-old boy to between four and six and a half years in prison for his part in the death of a younger boy on a riverbank in Kawasaki last year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2015
Police block access as trial of 'ultimate canary in coal mine' China rights lawyer lasts just three hours
The trial of one of China's most high profile human rights lawyers on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble lasted just three hours on Monday, with police blocking diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the court.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 2, 2015
Paris puts seven accused jihadis on trial, including Islamic State executioner in absentia
The trial began in Paris on Tuesday of seven suspected Islamists, including an alleged Islamic State 'executioner' in Syria — the first such case to go to court since the group killed 130 people in the French capital last month.

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A statue of "Dragon Ball" character Goku stands outside the offices of Bandai Namco in Tokyo. The figure is now as recognizable as such characters as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.
Akira Toriyama's gift to the world