The chief of Shiga Prefectural Police department has apologized to a former assistant nurse who was acquitted of murdering a patient in a retrial after serving her prison term. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/japan/crime-legal/japan-police-apology-false-conviction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #falseconvictions #japanesecourts #shiga #mikanishiyama #nurses
A high court ruling that acquitted a 60-year-old man in a high-profile retrial over a 1986 murder of a 15-year-old junior high school girl in the Japanese city of Fukui has been finalized — 38 years after his arrest. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/japan/crime-legal/shoshi-maekawa-acquittal-finalized/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts#fukui #falseconvictions
The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling ordering advertising giant Dentsu Group to pay ¥300 million in fines over bid-rigging related to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2021. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/japan/crime-legal/dentsu-bid-rigging-uphold/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #dentsu#2020tokyoolympics #advertising #corruption #japanesecourts #2020tokyoparalympics
Japanese AI developer Alt, which revealed accounting irregularities recently, has filed for bankruptcy protection with the Tokyo District Court under the civil rehabilitation law. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/japan/ai-developer-bankruptcy-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #fraud #bankruptcy #japanesecourts
The Tokyo District Court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings on Wednesday to pay about ¥100 million ($675,000) in damages over the 2011 accident at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/japan/crime-legal/tepco-ordered-to-pay-damages-nuclear-disaster/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fukushimano1 #311 #earthquakes #tsunami #futaba #fukushima #japanesecourts
Tokyo District Court on Tuesday sentenced a senior member of the "JP Dragon" crime ring based in the Philippines to three years and six months in prison for fraud. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/japan/crime-legal/jp-dragon-senior-sentence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #jpdragon #fraud #japanesecourts #philippines #tokyo #organizedcrime
A Justice Ministry expert panel has called for establishing a new forum to discuss an update to the criminal procedure law, including expanding the scope of cases subject to video and audio recordings of interrogations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/25/japan/crime-legal/interrogation-recordings-expansion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #justiceministry #japanesepolice #japanesecourts
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday sentenced a senior member of a Philippines-based Japanese crime ring to 20 years in prison for his involvement in a nationwide robbery scheme. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/23/japan/crime-legal/luffy-senior-member-prison-sentence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #fraud #theft #philippines #luffy
A group of lawyers filed a lawsuit with Osaka High Court on Tuesday to nullify the results of Sunday's House of Councilors election in six electoral districts, claiming that it was unconstitutional. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/japan/crime-legal/vote-disparity-lawsuit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #osaka #votedisparity #2025upperhouseelection
Five former executives at brokerage SMBC Nikko Securities were found guilty for their roles in a market manipulation case, marking the culmination of a scandal that rocked Japan’s financial industry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/japan/crime-legal/smbc-nikko-guilty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #smbcnikko #brokerages #japanesecourts
A Japanese high court branch on Friday acquitted a 60-year-old man in a high-profile retrial over the 1986 murder of a 15-year-old junior high school girl in the city of Fukui. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/japan/crime-legal/man-acquitted-over-1986-fukui-murder/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts#fukui #falseconvictions
A district court ordered the Shiga Prefectural Government to pay about ¥31 million in damages to a former assistant nurse who served a 12-year prison sentence before being acquitted of murdering a patient. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/japan/crime-legal/shiga-nurse-compensation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #shiga #japanesecourts #japanesepolice #falseconvictions #hospitals #nurses
Public prosecutors on Tuesday sought a 23-year prison term for a senior member of the Philippines-based "Luffy" Japanese crime ring that allegedly masterminded a series of robbery and fraud cases across Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/japan/crime-legal/luffy-sentence-request/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippines #japanesecourts #fraud #gangs #socialmedia
A court in Osaka detained a man for three weeks under the law on human protection after he failed to have his son appear at a hearing in a legal dispute with his wife over the child. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/11/japan/crime-legal/osaka-man-detention/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #osaka #constitution
Inappropriate interrogation practices by police and prosecutors continue to be reported in Japan, with cases involving verbal abuse and the use of leading or coercive methods. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/japan/crime-legal/inappropriate-interrogation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #japanesecourts #falseconvictions
A trial challenging Japan's lengthy and grueling detention of criminal suspects has opened in Tokyo, with plaintiffs decrying "subhuman" treatment they say ignores the presumption of innocence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/japan/crime-legal/japan-hostage-justice-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #justiceministry #japanesecourts #falseconvictions #japanesepolice
It’s been three years since the shocking assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — and yet, the trial of the 44-year-old man accused of the crime still hasn’t begun. Here are where things stand. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/japan/crime-legal/japan-pm-abe-shooting-three-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #shinzoabe#tetsuyayamagami #nara#unificationchurch #japanesecourts
A senior officer of the U.S. Marine Corps on Thursday apologized to Okinawa Prefecture over a recent conviction of a Marine for sexually assaulting a woman in the prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/04/japan/crime-legal/us-military-apologizes-over-okinawa-sexual-assault/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #usmilitary#usbases #okinawa #sexcrimes #japanesecourts
A senior member of a crime ring that allegedly masterminded a series of robbery and fraud cases across Japan pleaded guilty at the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/02/japan/crime-legal/luffy-first-hearing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippines #luffy #japanesecourts #fraud #socialmedia
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the government's cuts to welfare benefits between 2013 and 2015 were unlawful, marking a significant victory for welfare recipients. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/27/japan/crime-legal/welfare-benefits-cuts-ruled-unlawful/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #socialwelfare #japanesecourts #poverty