The Osaka District Court shocks Tokyo by ruling that the government’s decision to exclude Pyongyang-linked Osaka Korean High School from its free tuition program is illegal.
An Osaka-based restaurant chain operator and its top manager were fined Wednesday for making foreign student employees work longer hours than legally permitted.
Kazuhiro Hara was arrested — and he lost customers — after tipping off police about a planned robbery and following a police request to assist preparations for the crime. Hara, a 45-year-old manager of a used car business in Saga is worried that others may ...
The last of four students indicted over last year’s gang rape in Chiba Prefecture is handed the heaviest sentence in the case: four years in prison.
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami to 22 months in prison, suspended for five years, for making illegal payments to his campaign staff during his unsuccessful run for Tokyo governor in February 2014. In rejecting his not-guilty ...
A man received 30 months in prison Thursday for causing the death of a woman in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, last August while playing "Pokemon Go" as he was driving. The Nagoya District Court ruled that 27-year-old Yusuke Okuyama from Toki in neighboring Gifu Prefecture was ...
A Tokyo court rejected an appeal by former school teachers who claimed it was unreasonable they were banned from working part time after retirement because they did not sing the national anthem.
A court has ordered the operator of an online phone book site to delete its listing of a man's name, address and phone number and pay him about ¥50,000 ($450) in compensation for damages. In handing down the ruling on Tuesday, presiding Judge Yukiko Ito ...
A corporate executive from Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, was handed a six-year prison term Thursday for embezzling some ¥68 million from the bank account of his 15-year-old nephew, who was orphaned by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The ruling, handed down at the ...
A father who won legal custody of his daughter last year based on the “good parent rule” on visitation loses custody in an appeal ruling based on “continuation.”
A 48-year-old crane truck driver was found guilty Tuesday in the Kyoto District Court over a fatal accident linked to playing the popular smartphone game "Pokemon Go." Hiroki Negami was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for five years, for negligence resulting in death. ...
The Sapporo District Court has sentenced two men to 23 years in prison for engaging in a fatal street race in Sunagawa, Hokkaido, that ended up decimating a family of five last year. In a rare judicial decision Thursday, the court ruled that Ryuji Tanikoshi ...
