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Medical workers walk across a pedestrian crossing outside a hospital in Seoul on March 11. A Seoul court on May 16 rejected a request by doctors and medical students to stop a government plan to increase medical school quotas, as a monthslong strike by junior medics drags on.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 16, 2024
Seoul court dismisses doctors' bid to halt South Korea reforms
Citing shortages and a rapidly aging population, the government is seeking to train hundreds more doctors each year.
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2022
Kirin says Myanmar unit blocked liquidation in Yangon court
Myanmar Economic Holdings Public Company Ltd. had filed a petition to liquidate the venture in November, months after Kirin said it was cutting ties there following a military coup.
EDITORIALS
Jul 2, 2020
The struggle continues for victims of eugenic law
People who were forcibly sterilized deserve just compensation.
WORLD
Dec 14, 2015
Australian teenager pleads guilty to 'terrorism' charge
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 18, 2015
Fist-bumping Trump arrives in limo for NYC jury duty
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.
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.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 17, 2015
Prostitutes in Strauss-Kahn sex trial withdraw damages claim
Lawyers for the four prostitutes who participated in sex parties organized for Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Monday they were giving up their claim of damages, saying it would be too hard to prove the pimping charge against the former IMF head.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 14, 2015
U.S. man, 19, pleads not guilty to trying to join Islamic State
A 19-year-old man from suburban Chicago pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal charges of trying to provide material support to Islamic State militants after he tried to travel with his two younger siblings to the Middle East to join the Islamic State.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 8, 2014
Captain of doomed South Korean ferry apologizes for failure to rescue
The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April killing about 300 people, most of them school children, apologized in court on Wednesday for his failure to rescue passengers in the country's worst maritime disaster for decades.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2014
Fukushima farmer takes on Tepco over wife's suicide
The Fukushima District Court is due to rule next month on a claim that Tokyo Electric Power Co. is responsible for a woman's suicide, in a landmark case that could force the utility to publicly admit culpability for deaths related to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 19, 2014
Officials faulted in death of Ghanaian
In a landmark verdict, the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ruled that immigration officials were responsible for the death of a Ghanaian man they were forcibly deporting in 2010.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2013
Nissan-only N.Y. taxi fleet plan struck down
New York's plan for a new fleet of cabs from Nissan Motor Co. has been blocked by a judge who ruled that the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission overstepped its authority by requiring medallion owners to buy a specific vehicle.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2013
Hasan admits to massacre at Fort Hood
Sitting in a wheelchair, his voice soft but unwavering, U.S. Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan took responsibility Tuesday for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 2, 2013
Somali pirate trial lay judges felt global duty
The lay judges who sentenced two Somali pirates to 10 years in prison Friday said that while they had initial qualms about a case they considered foreign, they came to believe it was their duty as part of the international community to try the defendants.
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
Chinese fighters came within 30 meters of Japanese spy aircraft, Tokyo says
A Chinese JH-7 fighter jet makes an near an Air Self-Defense Force YS-11EB surveillance aircraft over the East China Sea this week in this image released Thursday.
Air India crash report to offer peek into last seconds
Members of the Indian Army's engineering arm prepare to remove the wreckage of an Air India aircraft in Ahmedabad on June 14.
What Japanese politics could look like after Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (center) waves to attendees as he departs after delivering a campaign speech in Yokohama on Sunday.
New IG Arena set to dial down temperature at Nagoya Basho, in a good way
With IG Arena getting glowing early reviews as the Nagoya Basho’s replacement venue, it may be a while before fans wax nostalgic about the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.
Once a niche, anime is now mainstream content for Netflix and other streaming services
Though Netflix remains the dominant choice globally for anime viewers, Amazon Prime Video has also invested heavily in anime, steadily adding titles to their catalogue.
NGOs condemn rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric ahead of Upper House vote
Sanseito head Sohei Kamiya holds a board that reads "Japanese First" in Tokyo on July 2. In a joint statement on Tuesday, eight human rights nongovernmental organizations described the far-right party's stance as "hate speech."
Japanese dancers find a home abroad at Houston Ballet
“Giselle” lead Yuriko Kajiya (center), performing with Connor Walsh as Albrecht, is one of six Japanese dancers at Houston Ballet.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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