Whether seeking to guarantee child visitation for divorced parents or challenging the family registry system, lawyer-mayor Fusaho Izumi pushes the envelope.
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.
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 "illegitimate" ...
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. On ...
The Kobe District Court dismissesd a case against a former senior police officer over a 2001 fatal mass crush after a fireworks display in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, because the statute of limitations has expired.
