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Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating the finances of U.S. President Donald Trump's inaugural committee and whether foreigners contributed to its events using straw donors. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that prosecutors in New York are investigating whether some of the committee's donors made contributions ...

China has called on Japan to ensure the legal rights of two activists from Hong Kong who were arrested after staging a protest at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Wednesday. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a news briefing in Beijing that China has taken ...

Carlos Ghosn's arrest is a reminder that the nation's legal system is designed to coerce confessions, not maintain rule of law.

The high-profile case raised concern about dangerous driving in Japan, leading to stricter police crackdowns and calls for further revisions to traffic laws.

A divided U.S. appeals court Thursday blocked rules by the Trump administration that allowed more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control. States are likely to succeed with their claim that the changes to President Barack Obama's health care law were ...

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether U.S. President Donald Trump's inaugural committee misspent some of the funds it raised, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people it said were familiar with the matter. The investigation opened by the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office is examining ...

Ousted Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's case will put Japan's criminal trial process on the global stage.

Prosecutors have sought a 10-year prison term on charges of embezzlement for the former CEO of Mt. Gox Co., once the world's largest bitcoin digital currency exchange, officials announced Wednesday. Prosecutors told the Tokyo District Court that Mark Karpeles, 33, "diverted company funds for such ...

Olympus Corp. said Tuesday it was fined $85 million in a plea deal reached with the U.S. Justice Department after admitting failure to report infections connected to its duodenum endoscopes to U.S. authorities. In the agreement, Olympus admitted it did not report three separate cases ...

In-house lawyers are becoming more common in Japan as a result of judicial system reform that was aimed at boosting the number of legal professionals and companies' growing need to strengthen their legal work. In-house lawyers have only one client — the company that employs ...

Kazuho Ishibashi’s action was “persistent and malicious,” the prosecutors said at the Yokohama District Court.