A Tokyo high court in Japan recently ruled that the government’s policy against same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The ...

A Japanese high court ruled Thursday that the disparity in the weight of votes of up to 2.06-fold in the House of Representa ...

A Japanese court has convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison ...

SAPPORO—For the first time, a high court has ruled that Japan’s lack of legal provisions for same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. The Sapporo High Court on March 14 upheld the landmark ...

It was the seventh ruling among the 16 lawsuits on the latest general election filed so far by two groups of lawyers at 14 ...

An appeals court in Japan has for the first time upheld a lower court ruling that the lack of legal recognition for same-sex marriages in the country is unconstitutional. The decision marks a ...

The Japanese government said Thursday it will not appeal a high court ruling that nullified the state's decision to remain ...

The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court's ruling that the state must pay compensation to a former lawyer over the verbal ...

Japan's Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court's acquittal of a man charged with committing a hit-and-run that resulted in the death of a middle school student in 2015, citing his failure to ...

In a landmark ruling, the Osaka High Court recognized that a then 11-year-old girl with hearing difficulties who was killed in a traffic accident woul･･･ ...

Tokyo, Feb. 12 (Jiji Press)--The Hiroshima, Osaka and Sapporo high courts ruled on Wednesday that last October's election for Japan's House of Representatives was constitutional in terms of vote ...

A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a former member of the House of Representatives to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for sexually assaulting a junior high school girl at a karaoke ...