Editorials Jul 2, 2020
People who were forcibly sterilized deserve just compensation.
National / Crime & Legal Mar 7, 2016
Plaintiffs appeal ruling leaving them ineligible for Nagasaki A-bomb recognition, government aid
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 ...
National Jan 28, 2016
Court rejects demand for injunction against Abe visits to Yasukuni Shrine
The Osaka District Court on Thursday dismissed a demand by plaintiffs in Japan and Taiwan for an injunction to prevent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from making future visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The court also rejected a compensation demand by the 765 ...
World Dec 14, 2015
A Melbourne teen arrested after police found explosives at his home pleaded guilty on Monday to a terrorism-related charge, highlighting concerns about youth radicalization following last week's arrest of a 15-year-old Sydney boy in police raids. The 17-year-old was planning an attack using improvised explosive ...
National / Crime & Legal Nov 26, 2015
A court in Ecuador has convicted a man of the shooting of a Japanese honeymooning couple in the country in 2013 that left the husband dead and his wife seriously injured, prosecutors said Wednesday. Carlos Camposano could face a prison term of between 16 and ...
World / Crime & Legal Sep 8, 2015
Emergency injunction sought so jailed Kentucky clerk doesn't have to issue gay marriage licenses
Lawyers for jailed Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis said on Monday they had asked an appellate court to force Gov. Steve Beshear to let her refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses based on her religious convictions. The lawyers sought emergency relief from the 6th Circuit ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 27, 2015
'Evil, mental illness not mutually exclusive': Gunman gets 3,318 years for cinema massacre
Condemning movie massacre gunman James Holmes to 12 life sentences and the maximum 3,318 years in prison for his rampage in a midnight screening of a Batman film, a Colorado judge said on Wednesday that evil and mental illness are not mutually exclusive. "It is ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 18, 2015
Billionaire Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reported for jury duty in New York on Monday in a black limo, signing autographs and giving a fist-bump to a supporter as he took a break from the campaign trail. Trump, the front-runner in a crowded Republican field, ...
World / Crime & Legal Jun 17, 2015
Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood figures sentenced to death over mass jail break
An Egyptian court sentenced deposed President Mohamed Morsi to death on Tuesday over a mass jail break during the country's 2011 uprising and issued sweeping punishments against the leadership of Egypt's oldest Islamic group. The general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, and four ...
National / Crime & Legal May 28, 2015
Aichi man drops appeal, accepts life term for Indonesia drug trafficking
A 73-year-old Japanese man, who was sentenced to life in prison last week for trying to smuggle drugs into Indonesia, has decided not to appeal out of fear he might get the death penalty at a higher court, his lawyer said late Wednesday. Last week, ...
National / Crime & Legal May 25, 2015
A man charged with killing two people in Osaka three years ago pleaded guilty as his trial started Monday, after the proceedings had been delayed so he could undergo two rounds of psychiatric evaluations. Kyozo Isohi, 39, told the Osaka District Court he stabbed music ...
National / Politics Mar 26, 2015
The Osaka High Court on Thursday ruled that the House of Representatives election in December, in which there was a maximum 2.13-fold disparity in the weight of votes between districts, was constitutional. The court dismissed the plaintiffs' demand that the election results in Nara Prefecture's ...