A Tokyo court on Wednesday upheld the government's exclusion of a pro-Pyongyang school in Tokyo from a tuition waiver program that covers most high schools in the country. The Tokyo District Court rejected a suit filed by 62 graduates of the Korean high school, following ...
A court building in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward started using tablet computers on Tuesday in an effort to make it easier for members of the public to check the day's trial information. An official of the Tokyo High Court, which operates the building, said it was ...
Family of 22-year-old man says suicide was the result of psychological damage after he was forced to confess past experiences of being bullied.
The Tokyo District Court on Friday declined to judge whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's December 2013 visit to war-related Yasukuni Shrine violated the constitutional separation of politics and religion. It also rejected a demand by the 633 Japanese, Chinese and South Korean plaintiffs for an ...
Prosecutors have sought a two-year prison sentence for former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami for allegedly making illegal payments to his campaign staff in his unsuccessful Tokyo gubernatorial bid in February 2014. Tamogami repeated his not guilty plea in the trial at the Tokyo ...
The Tokyo District Court has removed a Japanese interpreter from the trial of a former Japanese Red Army member over a 1986 attack on the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta, after finding numerous errors in the interpreter's translations, the court confirmed Thursday. During a hearing on ...
The Tokyo District Court dismisses a case by a recently married woman on the grounds that the practice is not customary.
The Tokyo District Court sentences a student to two years in prison, suspended for four years, for his role in a sexual assault.
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday dismissed two lawsuits over articles published decades ago by the daily newspaper and retracted in 2014.
The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday sentenced a former law school student to 4½ years in prison for cutting off the penis of a lawyer whom the defendant suspected had forced his wife to have sexual relations. Ikki Kotsugai, 25, charged with causing injury and ...
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by a man seeking repayment for bitcoins he kept in an account at the bankrupt exchange Mt. Gox Co., with the ruling saying the virtual currency is "not subject to ownership" claims. Last June, the Kyoto ...
Bankrupt Japanese carrier Skymark Airlines Inc. said Monday that its largest creditor has submitted a plan for the airline's rehabilitation to a court, rivaling the one submitted by the debtor late last week. The plan submitted by U.S. aircraft leasing firm Intrepid Aviation opposes Skymark's ...
