The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday ruled that the government's not recognizing same-sex marriage was against the country's ...

The Tokyo High Court called the ongoing ban “a groundless legal discrimination,” saying it violates the constitutional ...

I started the day on the packed plaza outside of Tokyo International Film Festival headquarters, where people waited in line ...

The Tokyo District Court on Dec. 27 awarded compensation to three company officials who were wrongly arrested in a “fabricated” case that tied them to exports of biological weapons parts. The ...

His case was tried by citizen judges at the Tokyo District Court, which found him guilty in March 2019 and handed down an 11-year prison sentence. The ruling cited a “lack of blood stains.” ...

The case is now pending at the Supreme Court. Katsumata also faced a civil trial filed by a group of TEPCO shareholders and was ordered by the Tokyo District Court in 2022 to pay damages exceeding ...

TOKYO — A second Japanese high court ruled on Wednesday ... overall that found the ongoing ban to be unconstitutional or nearly so, against only one district court decision that found it ...

The Tokyo District Court is seen in the capital's Chiyoda Ward in this file photo. (Mainichi/Kenji Yoneda) TOKYO -- The district court here on Oct. 25 ordered the Japanese government to pay ...

By  CalMatters, Gina Pollack/LAist, Originally published Sept. 20, 2024 Jimmy Gomez is running for a second term against David Kim in the race to represent California’s 34th Congressional District.

The Tokyo District Court ruled on Thursday that Japan's dual nationality ban was constitutional, rejecting a claim by a teenage plaintiff who had lost his Japanese citizenship after acquiring ...