Based on a proposal finalized Friday by a National Police Agency panel, the government will improve its compensation program for crime victims next year to bolster support for those under 18 and victims of offenses against family members. The panel, comprising legal and other experts, ...
The evacuation orders for most of the village of Iitate have been lifted. But where are the people?
Children of Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors sued the central government Monday over a lack of financial support, following a similar suit filed by second-generation hibakusha in Hiroshima last week. Claiming that their parents' exposure to radiation in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki has ...
Justice has been a long time coming for Masanori Yamazaki, whose common-law wife was murdered by a drunk U.S. sailor in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, 10 years ago, in an unprovoked assault. Yamazaki, 68, is refusing a U.S. government offer to settle over the death of ...
A Tokyo veterinary clinic has been ordered to pay ¥430,000 in damages after a court found it engaged in malpractice by breaking a pet rabbit's jaw. The rabbit later died. The pet rabbit's owner, a Tokyo woman, had sued the Shinagawa Ward clinic for ¥1.34 ...
The former Mitsubishi Mining Corp. apologizes to and settles with thousands of victims it forced to work during WWII.
Volkswagen AG and U.S. officials have reached a framework deal under which the automaker would offer to buy back almost 500,000 diesel cars that used sophisticated software to evade U.S. emission rules, two people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday. The German automaker is ...
Plaintiffs seeking to be acknowledged as victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Monday appealed a local court ruling denying them official recognition and making them ineligible for special government assistance. The appeal was filed by 151 plaintiffs who say they were within ...
A court ordered the state and nine makers of building materials on Friday to pay ¥216 million ($1.8 million) in damages to former construction workers and their families for illnesses they developed after being exposed to asbestos at construction sites. A total of 27 plaintiffs, ...
A group of elderly Filipino women raped by Japanese troops during World War II called for compensation from Japan on Wednesday, following Tokyo's pledge of $8.3 million for South Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during the war. The women's lawyers said they were ...
The Japan-South Korea accord reached Monday on the "comfort women" issue drew a mix of reactions from people in Japan who have been engaged in efforts to resolve the protracted dispute. "It has been a long time. I have hoped that it would be resolved ...
Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama welcomed Monday an agreement reached between Japan and South Korea to create a new fund to resolve the issue of women forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels. "It has been a long time. I have hoped that it ...
