Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...

The assassination in 2022 of Shinzo Abe, the country’s former prime minister, led to an investigation into the group’s ...

Japan's Osaka High Court ruled Tuesday that the country's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, following similar ...

The Unification Church in Japan was ordered dissolved by a court after a government request spurred by the investigation into ...

The Tokyo District Court ordered the dissolution of the Japanese branch of the Unification Church, colloquially known as 'moonies,' following an inquest from the Ministry of Education, Culture, ...

The Osaka High Court held that Japan's lack of recognition of same-sex marriage is unconstitutional on Tuesday. The Osaka High Court is the fifth court to rule that the ban on same-sex marriage is ...

Shizuoka, March 25 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese court has granted Iwao Hakamata, who was acquitted in a retrial last year over a 1966 murder case, some 217 million yen in compensation for being ...

Advertisement Presiding Judge Kumiko Honda of the Osaka High Court ruled Tuesday in favor of three same-sex couples who filed a lawsuit against the government, seeking 6 million yen -- or $39,900 ...

A Japanese court ordered on Tuesday that a religious sect be stripped of official recognition, the government said, in the ...

A Japanese court ordered on March 25 that a religious sect be stripped of official recognition, the government said, in the ...