Commentary / World Dec 23, 2019
Laboring under the illusion of a rules-based global order
by Brahma Chellaney
International law today is powerful against the powerless, and powerless against the powerful.
Issues | LAW OF THE LAND Dec 23, 2019
The Reiwa Daijosai: Pomp, circumstance and litigation
by Colin P.A. Jones
The separation of church and state in Japan comes under scrutiny in the new era. However, we've been down this road before.
Editorials Dec 21, 2019
Measures need to be taken to ensure the rights of children to maintain a relationship with both of their parents after divorce.
Editorials Dec 14, 2019
Coming up with new legal definitions is an important step in clamping down on road rage.
National / Crime & Legal Nov 9, 2019
Police will refer to prosecutors as soon as next week the case of an 88-year-old former senior bureaucrat who was involved in a fatal car crash in central Tokyo in April, according to investigative sources. Kozo Iizuka, who was 87 at the time of the ...
National / Crime & Legal Nov 8, 2019
Japanese former city assemblyman handed life term for drug smuggling in China
A 76-year-old former Japanese municipal assemblyman was sentenced Friday to life in prison by a court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou for smuggling drugs, his attorney said. Takuma Sakuragi, a former assemblyman from Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture, was detained by Chinese authorities in October ...
Asia Pacific / Social Issues | FOCUS Nov 8, 2019
India's top court to rule on Ayodhya land at center of bitter Hindu-Muslim dispute
by Rina Chandran
The most contested plot of land in India has unleashed deadly riots and set Hindu against Muslim. Now the nation's top court will decide who owns it. In dispute is a scrap of land in Ayodhya, a sleepy northern temple town that is a holy ...
World / Social Issues Nov 6, 2019
Extinction Rebellion wins court challenge to London police ban
Extinction Rebellion climate-change activists won a legal challenge in London's High Court on Wednesday against a police-imposed blanket ban on protests during its "Autumn Uprising" in the British capital in October. The court said separate gatherings, even if coordinated by one organization, could not be ...
Editorials Nov 4, 2019
Only when a correct understanding of the disease has been established through various efforts will the dignity and human rights of the former Hansen's disease patients and their relatives be fully restored.
National / Crime & Legal Oct 30, 2019
Stepfather's 13-year term finalized after fatal abuse of 5-year-old Yua Funato
A 13-year prison sentence was finalized Wednesday for a man convicted of physical abuse and neglect that led to the death of his 5-year-old stepdaughter, after neither the defense nor prosecutors appealed the ruling. The Tokyo District Court ruled on Oct. 15 that Yudai Funato, ...
National / Crime & Legal Oct 29, 2019
NHK sues head of minor political party over unpaid subscription fees
NHK is suing the head of a minor opposition party critical of the broadcaster, arguing that he has not paid his subscription fees. NHK filed the lawsuit Monday with the Tokyo District Court demanding that Takashi Tachibana, 52, pay two months of subscription fees totaling ...
Editorials Oct 27, 2019
Whether the granting of uniform pardons on the occasion of major national events is appropriate under the current legal system should be subject to public discussion.