With more and more tourists flocking to quake-prone Japan, there is a growing need to develop a legal framework to exempt hotels from liability for evacuees in times of disaster when they offer shelter and evacuees become injured during the stay, an expert on ...
Last month it was revealed that a Bangladeshi former associate professor at Kyoto's Ritsumeikan University was wanted by police for his suspected involvement in the Dhaka terrorist attack that killed 20 people in a cafe, including seven Japanese. Mohammad Saifullah Ozaki had been teaching ...
Thailand has freed a political activist after eight years in jail for insulting the country's widely revered monarchy under its draconian royal defamation laws. Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul, also known as "Da Torpedo," was freed on Saturday under an annual series of royal pardons, Charnchao Chaiyanukij, permanent ...
In what was hailed as a landmark development, the Diet passed an amendment last week to the suicide prevention law for the first time since its enactment 10 years ago — this time requiring local-level authorities to take preventive action. Experts say the overhaul symbolizes ...
A U.N. human rights expert says he has postponed his visit to Australia because the government has refused to suspend a law criminalizing the disclosure of "protected information" about detention centers. The U.N. special investigator on migration, Francois Crepeau, said in a statement late Friday ...
The ruling bloc bulldozed a contentious bill to revise the worker dispatch law through an Upper House committee Tuesday, clearing a critical hurdle for its enactment that will enable companies to use temporary workers for as long as they wish. With the committee's approval, the ...
After successfully expelling visa overstayers over the past decade, Japan is now shifting its immigration control focus to a new target: people in the country on bogus visas. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has submitted a bill to revise the immigration control law that will ...
Residents in U.S. states that have legalized marijuana should toke up while they still can, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said. "If you're getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it," Christie, a Republican campaigning for the 2016 presidential nomination, said Tuesday during a town hall ...
The Diet revised the adult entertainment business law on Wednesday to enable dance clubs to operate past midnight if they meet certain conditions. The revision came after individuals from the music industry such as performer and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, a prominent lobbyist, launched a campaign ...
China needs to better regulate foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) operating in the country for national security reasons, an official said on Wednesday, as the government drafts a law that has unnerved many aid groups. Fu Ying, spokeswoman for China's largely rubber-stamp parliament, said she understood ...
Japan mulls new legislation that would allow it to freeze the assets of people it deems terrorists to improve security for the 2020 Olympics.
The choice by Swiss voters to impose new curbs on immigration is sending shock waves through the European Union. The bloc's leaders warn it violates the "sacred principle" of freedom of movement and politicians worry about its impact on other anti-immigration pushes. Here's a ...
