National Jan 21, 2022
Former lawmaker Anri Kawai taken to Tokyo hospital after overdosing on sleeping pills
Kawai, who was found guilty last year of buying votes for herself in the 2019 Upper House election, is not in a life-threatening condition.
National / Crime & Legal Jan 21, 2022
Limited disclosure of names of 18- and 19-year-old offenders considered
The move came in the wake of parliamentary resolutions calling on the government and the Supreme Court to give sufficient considerations to the specified juvenile offenders' rehabilitation.
National / Crime & Legal Jan 20, 2022
Japan's top court overturns guilty ruling over cryptocurrency mining program
The court battle centered around a program called Coinhive, which automatically used the computers of other people to mine, or earn, crypto assets.
National / Crime & Legal Jan 17, 2022
Son of killer in Wakayama curry poisoning case tells his story
Unconvinced of her guilt, the son of 60-year-old death row inmate Masumi Hayashi continues to talk about his mother and push for a retrial.
National / Crime & Legal Jan 14, 2022
The two, a Turkish man and an Iranian man, each spent more than three years in detention, and are claiming their prolonged detentions lacked rationality.
National Jan 12, 2022
Japanese courts are going all out to make information technology available for judicial procedures, a move that has been in part spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Jan 11, 2022
Tokyo court tosses suit by three Taiwanese seeking to restore Japan nationality
The men, born in Taiwan during Japan's colonial rule, are seeking to have their Japanese nationality reinstated after they automatically lost it following World War II.
National / Crime & Legal Jan 8, 2022
Japanese prosecutors conduct remote questioning amid pandemic
Although concerns about the fairness of procedures remain, some in charge of discussing the digitalization of the country's criminal justice system are in favor of remote questioning.
National / Crime & Legal Dec 25, 2021
Buyers of Tokyo Olympic Village condos sue developers over delay
The plaintiffs were set to move into their new homes in late March 2023, but the coronavirus pandemic forced a one-year postponement of the Tokyo Games.
Business / Corporate Dec 24, 2021
Nippon Steel sues trader Mitsui over alleged patent infringement
Mitsui is believed to have been involved in a business deal between Toyota and a Chinese company, both also being pursued in legal action by Nippon Steel.
National / Crime & Legal Dec 17, 2021
Copied and pasted rulings thought to have been used by Japanese courts
The rulings were in cases concerning a reduction in welfare benefits, and plaintiffs' lawyers say two out of three courts may have copied the text of the preceding ruling.
National / Crime & Legal Dec 4, 2021
Japanese Supreme Court confirms obligation to pay NHK viewing fees
Even families in Japan with televisions on which channels of public broadcaster NHK cannot be watched must pay viewing fees, the Supreme Court has confirmed.