constitution

The Supreme Court has set Dec. 16 to rule on Civil Code provisions that prohibit married couples from using separate family names and bar women from remarrying for a period of six months after divorce, court officials said. The rulings in two separate cases, scheduled ...

Dozens of citizen groups behind the Diet rallies against the new security laws said Thursday they will try to collect 20 million signatures — around a sixth of Japan's population — by May 3 to demand action. "Such activities have traditionally been conducted separately by ...

Only in Japan is unilateral pacifism considered viable, but in a world of new threats a policy of sympathetic indifference is morally questionable.

While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has talked a good game about Japan playing a bigger international role, his track record so far shows little has changed.

Japan is well on its way to become a weapons developer and exporter following a decision last year by the Abe administration to discard a long-standing arms export ban.

Japan's new security legislation will do little to deter China or North Korea, and the SDF is not large or strong enough to turn the tides of war in international peacekeeping and possible U.S.-led war efforts.

The Shizuoka couple in their 20s filed a lawsuit Thursday over the rule for newly divorced women, calling it unconstitutional. They are seeking ¥3 million damages.