The mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, on trial in connection with the 2022 killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, told a court she wants to keep her faith in the Unification Church, a controversial religious group. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/japan/crime-legal/yamagami-trial-mother/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #shinzoabe #tetsuyayamagami #shinzoabeassassination #guns
A welfare ministry expert panel has broadly approved a draft revision to the reduction rate for basic welfare payments, following a Supreme Court ruling that found the government's cuts to welfare benefits unlawful. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/japan/welfare-payments-smaller-reduction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesecourts #socialwelfare #poverty #mhlw
A survey of researchers on Japan's retrial system has found that all 19 respondents support a proposed ban on prosecutors' ability to appeal a court's decision to initiate a retrial. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/japan/crime-legal/retrial-system-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #surveys #justiceministry
Ohkawara Kakohki, once falsely accused of illegal exports, is seeking three investigators' personal liabilities for part of the damages awarded to the machinery-maker. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/16/japan/crime-legal/ohkawara-kakohki-resident-audit-request/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #ohkawarakakohki #japanesecourts #japanesepolice #tokyo
The mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, who is charged with the 2022 murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Nara, apologized for the crime committed by her second son as she appeared in court as a defense witness. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/14/japan/crime-legal/mother-abe-shooter-apology/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #nara #shinzoabe #shinzoabeassassination #tetsuyayamagami #guns #japanesecourts
A Saitama court handed down a suspended prison sentence to a 43-year-old Chinese man who hit a group of elementary school children with his car and fled the scene to avoid being caught for drunken driving. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/japan/crime-legal/china-hit-and-run-sentence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #saitama #china #misato #children #trafficaccidents #driving #japanesecourts
The president of a Hokkaido tour boat operator pleaded not guilty to professional negligence resulting in a fatal sinking in the first hearing of his criminal trial on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/12/japan/crime-legal/hokkaido-boat-operator-hearing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hokkaido #shari #japanesecourts #marineaccidents #shiretokoyuransen
Seven guns made by Tetsuya Yamagami, charged with the murder of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, were all lethal, a police witness said at Nara District Court on Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/07/japan/crime-legal/abe-shooter-guns-lethal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #shinzoabe #tetsuyayamagami #shinzoabeassassination #nara
A group of 1,191 people across Japan has sent a petition to a court seeking the return of about ¥11.4 billion from a company based in the city of Osaka over real estate investment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/06/japan/crime-legal/petition-real-estate-investment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #realestate #osaka #investments #japanesecourts
The Matsue branch of the Hiroshima High Court has ruled that the House of Councilors election in July was held in a “state of unconstitutionality” due to vote-value disparities of up to 3.13 times. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/05/japan/crime-legal/upper-house-poll-unconstitutional-state/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #2025upperhouseelection #diet #japanesecourts #shimane
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
