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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

The Tokyo District Court ordered the government to pay ¥1.5 million in damages after finding medical care provided to an inmate at a juvenile detention facility in Saitama had been “grossly unsatisfactory.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/japan/crime-legal/state-damages-detainee-cancer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #saitama #japaneseprisons

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Tokyo court orders state to pay damages following inmate’s death

The dispute centered on whether a medical exam conducted in January 2020 at the juvenile detention branch had been appropriate given the man was later diagnosed with cancer.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

The Tokyo District Court has sentenced a man to 2 years and 6 months in prison for burning his girlfriend’s body and dumping it in the sea on Izu Oshima, an island south of Tokyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/japan/crime-legal/izu-oshima-ruling-girlfriend/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #izuoshima #tokyo

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Tokyo court sentences man to 30 months in prison for burning girlfriend’s body

According to the indictment, Sotatsu Yanase abandoned his girlfriend's remains in 2024 near Izu Oshima's southwest coast, with police still investigating how she died.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Lawmaker Kei Sato, who was at the scene of the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, appeared at the trial of the suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, as a witness Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/japan/crime-legal/japan-pm-abe-shooting-trial-witness-testimony/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #keisato #shinzoabe #tetsuyayamagami #japanesecourts #nara

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Lawmaker Kei Sato testifies at Abe shooter trial

Sato, who witnessed the shooting, expressed his resentment and grief over the fatal attack.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

A series of court rulings in Japan has found key legal provisions on gender dysphoria unconstitutional, but the decisions have brought little relief to those seeking to change their gender identity. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/29/japan/crime-legal/gender-identity-law-reform/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #familyregistry #transgender

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Gender identity law reform stalls despite court rulings

Strong opposition from conservatives in parliament have dimmed prospects for reform.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Court hearings are expected to end in November over an order to dissolve the Unification Church, which allegedly inspired the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe three years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/29/japan/crime-legal/unification-church-dissolution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #unificationchurch #japanesecourts

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Hearings on Unification Church dissolution order to end in November

The church had allegedly inspired the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe three years ago.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Tetsuya Yamagami — the man accused of the 2022 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — has pleaded guilty to the crime. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/28/japan/crime-legal/yamagami-first-trial-hearing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #shinzoabe #nara #tetsuyayamagami

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Abe shooting suspect Yamagami pleads guilty to murder

On the first day of his trial, Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, admitted to the 2022 killing of the former prime minister.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

More than three years after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the trial of the man accused of the crime is set to begin following a lengthy psychiatric evaluation and pretrial proceedings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/27/japan/crime-legal/yamagami-trial-preview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #shinzoabe #tetsuyayamagami #unificationchurch #japanesecourts #nara

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Three years later, trial begins for man accused of ex-PM Abe’s assassination

The delay was due to pretrial proceedings and a lengthy psychiatric evaluation for Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, to determine his fitness to stand trial.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

The mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, the man indicted over the 2022 killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun in Nara, will testify in court as a defense witness. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/22/japan/crime-legal/abe-killer-mother-testify/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #shinzoabe #japanesecourts #nara #guns

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Mother of Abe's alleged killer to testify in court

The trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, who is accused of killing the former prime minister with a homemade gun, is set to begin Tuesday.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The Tokyo District Court ordered the government to pay some ¥300,000 in damages over verbal abuse and other illegal acts by prison guards against an inmate in Aichi Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/20/japan/crime-legal/japan-prison-death-ruling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #nagoyaprison

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Government ordered to pay damages for verbal abuse of inmate

The ruling came after the bereaved family of the inmate sued the government for some ¥40 million, accusing it of failing to offer proper medical treatment to him.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has been ordered by a court to pay damages to a South Asian woman over a police response in a park dispute that led to a man posting abusive social media posts against her. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/crime-legal/foreign-lawsuit-police/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #japanesepolice #tokyo #discrimination

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Tokyo ordered to pay damages to South Asian woman over police response

A park dispute led police officers to provide the woman’s personal details to a man who went on to make abusive social media posts against her.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Public prosecutors have sought the death penalty for Hideaki Nozu, who has been charged with killing three members of his family with arrows fired from a crossbow in Hyogo Prefecture in June 2020. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/japan/crime-legal/death-penalty-sought-for-fatal-crossbow-attack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #hyogo #takarazuka #deathpenalty

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Death penalty sought over fatal crossbow attack

The prosecution said that the defendant's autism spectrum disorder did not significantly affect his motivation and that his acts were planned.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The Nagano District Court has sentenced Masanori Aoki, 34, to death for the 2023 killings of four people in the city of Nakano, Nagano Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/japan/crime-legal/japan-quadruple-murder-ruling-death-penalty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #nagano #japanesecourts #deathpenalty

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The Osaka High Court has upheld a lower court ruling that the central government's decision to cut special tax grants to the city of Izumisano in Osaka Prefecture, due to its hometown tax donation revenue, was illegal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/10/japan/crime-legal/izumisano-illegal-tax-cut/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #izumisano #japanesecourts #taxes #furusatonozei #osaka

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Kazutaka Yonekura, 48, the founder and former president of Japanese artificial intelligence developer Alt, has been arrested with three others on suspicion of padding the firm's sales. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/10/japan/crime-legal/ai-developer-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #japanesecourts #ai

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Iwao Hakamata, a former death row inmate who was acquitted in a retrial for the 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture, filed a damages lawsuit against the central and prefectural governments. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/09/japan/hakamata-files-suit-against-government/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #iwaohakamata #japanesecourts #deathpenalty

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The Tokyo District Court has sentenced a former employee of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group to nine years in prison for stealing cash and valuables from customers’ safe-deposit boxes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/06/japan/crime-legal/mufg-deposit-box-theft-ruling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #mufg #japanesecourts #theft

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The Yokohama District Court on Friday sentenced Mai Nishitaka, 33, to 17 years in prison for killing her ex-partner, whose body was found in a suitcase by the Tama River near Tokyo in December 2023. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/japan/crime-legal/woman-sentenced-murder-case/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tamariver #kawasaki #kanagawa #japanesecourts

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Woman sentenced to 17 years for killing ex-boyfriend

Mai Nishitaka and four others strangled her ex-partner and abandoned the body in a suitcase by the Tama River in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Former lawmaker Yoshitami Kameoka pleaded not guilty Friday over his alleged distribution of cash to voters just before the official campaign period for the October 2024 House of Representatives election. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/japan/politics/lawmaker-kameoka-cash-distribution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #yoshitamikameoka #corruption #lowerhouse #japanesecourts #fukushima

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Ex-lawmaker Kameoka pleads not guilty over cash distribution

Kameoka, elected to the Lower House for the first time in 2005, served in posts including state minister for post-disaster reconstruction.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Tetsuya Yamagami, the man accused of the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will know his fate in January 2026, when the Nara District Court is scheduled to deliver its verdict on the case against him. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/japan/crime-legal/abe-shooter-ruling-date/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tetsuyayamagami #shinzoabe #japanesecourts

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Nara court likely to deliver verdict on Abe shooter in January 2026

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, is charged with the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The first settlements have been reached in petitions filed by former followers of the Unification Church demanding refunds of donations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/japan/crime-legal/unification-church-first-donation-refund-settlements/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #unificationchurch #japanesecourts

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Unification Church reaches first settlements on donation refunds

Three women in Hokkaido are believed to have lost about ¥70 million in total through purchases of seals and pots in addition to donations.
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