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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
