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 ...
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 female teacher in her 40s and the Tokyo school she is employed at have reached a settlement that allows teachers to continue using their maiden names after marriage, the woman's lawyers said Friday. Nihon University's Third Junior and Senior High School, based in the ...
The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced a South Korean man to four years in prison in connection with an incident that damaged a lavatory at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in 2015. Chon Chang-han, 28, damaged the ceiling of ...
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.”
The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday rescinded a lower court judgment that recognized the "right to be forgotten" in a case filed by a man who demanded Google Inc. eliminate five-year-old articles on his crime record from its search results. The court rejected the man's ...
A Tokyo High Court judge has been reprimanded after posting a photo of a man's naked upper body on his Twitter account. Kiichi Okaguchi, 50, who presides over civil cases at the high court, has been disciplined for three tweets uploaded between April 2014 and ...
The Tokyo High Court acquits former Aum Shinrikyo cult member Naoko Kikuchi of attempted murder in a 1995 bomb attack.
The high court also ordered the government to pay ¥9.4 billion in damages for noise at Atsugi, including ¥1.2 billion for noise resulting from future flights through 2016.
Former Aum Shinrikyo cult member Naoko Kikuchi pleaded not guilty on Wednesday at the Tokyo High Court in an appeal session on a five-year prison sentence. The 43-year-old Kikuchi was convicted at the Tokyo District Court in June 2014 for her role in a 1995 ...
The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday ruled against 71 former Japan Airlines Co. cabin attendants who were seeking reinstatement after being dismissed as part of the airline's corporate restructuring in the wake of its 2010 bankruptcy. The court ruled "the personnel cuts were necessary for ...
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday ordered the government and a former Maritime Self-Defense Force petty officer to pay more than ¥73 million in damages to the family of a seaman who committed suicide in 2004 — a figure markedly higher than the ¥4.4 ...
