21-year prison term upheld for ex-NHK reporter found guilty of raping three women
A high court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced a former reporter for public broadcaster NHK to 21 years in prison for raping three women. The defense for Yasutaka Tsurumoto, 30, claimed someone with a grudge against the former journalist may have ...
Osaka High Court tosses lower court ruling, denies Korean school's right to government subsidies
A high court Thursday scrapped a lower court ruling and decided a Korean school in Osaka is not eligible for the government's school tuition subsidies. The Osaka Korean High School, which teaches in Korean and provides a Korean-style education, had earlier sought to annul the ...
Dugong activists appeal U.S. court ruling on Okinawa base transfer
On Monday, American and Japanese conservationists seeking to protect endangered dugongs appealed a U.S. district court ruling in August allowing the construction of a new U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture. The plaintiffs contend that the base will destroy a crucial habitat for the last ...
High court upholds life term handed to former U.S. base worker in Okinawa over woman's 2016 murder
A high court Thursday upheld a lower court's ruling that sentenced a former U.S. military base worker to life in prison for the 2016 rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman in Okinawa. The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court dismissed the appeal of ...
Ex-exec of Japanese supercomputer venture gets suspended prison term
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday issued a suspended prison term to a former executive of a venture company for fraud involving around ¥653 million ($5.8 million) in government subsidies related to the company's supercomputer development project. Daisuke Suzuki, 48, was sentenced to three years ...
Fukuoka woman given suspended sentence over double-suicide attempt that left ex-husband dead
An 82-year-old woman has been given a suspended sentence for killing her ex-husband who had dementia, after growing exhausted caring for him. The Fukuoka District Court sentenced Taeko Baba on Tuesday to three years in prison, suspended for five years, over the death of the ...
A 73-year-old man received a suspended sentence Wednesday for illegally confining his mentally ill son in a wooden cage for years at their home in the city of Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture. The Kobe District Court sentenced Yoshitane Yamasaki to 18 months in prison, suspended for ...
Owners of cellphones with TV capability obliged to pay NHK, high court rules
The Tokyo High Court overturns a lower court ruling and says the owner of a cellphone with a mobile TV function is obliged to pay the NHK subscription fee.
Court reduces sum of taxpayer money assembly members must repay for Australia trip
A high court Thursday drastically reduced the amount a lower court had ordered five city assembly members to repay following accusations that taxpayer money was wasted on sightseeing in Australia. The Tokyo High Court ordered Kunio Jinbo, the mayor of Toda in Saitama Prefecture, to ...
Prosecutors demanded the driver be given two years for causing the five-car pileup on the Meishin Expressway, but the judge tacked on another eight months.
Japanese man gets life term for murdering two Kitakyushu women
A 44-year-old man was sentenced on Monday to life in prison for the murders of two women at his apartment in Kitakyushu. The Fukuoka District Court's Kokura branch handed down the ruling to Kenji Mihara for killing acquaintances Hiroe Saiki, 45, and Kimiko Mizutani, who ...
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in favor of a U.S.-based Japanese father seeking to reunite with his teenage son, who was taken by his estranged wife to Japan in 2016, concluding that the wife's dogged refusal to abide by an earlier court order ...
