Japan's justice minister has asked a legal panel to review the country's retrial system after the acquittal of the world's longest-serving death row prisoner last year heightened scrutiny of a ...

Left almost unchanged for a century, Japan's current retrial system is often labelled the ... to their evidence raises privacy concerns, and Tokyo prosecutor Kaori Miyazaki warned last year ...

A Kawasaki P-1 patrol aircraft of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force launches anti-missile flares during a fleet review off Sagami Bay, Kanagawa prefecture, in 2015. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP via Getty ...

Left almost unchanged for a century, Japan's current retrial system is often labelled the "Unopenable Door ... Prosecutors say easier access to their evidence raises privacy concerns, and Tokyo ...

But the 89-year-old might still be behind bars if not for Hiroaki Murayama, the judge who in 2014 dared do something extremely rare in Japan’s often intractable legal system: he ordered a retrial.

TOKYO: Tokyo and Washington are working toward confirming the reorganisation of US Forces Japan into a joint force headquarters, and their defense chiefs are set to agree to start transitional ...

created and listed the “Yomiuri 333 Japan stock ETF” under the “MAXIS” ETF series. The fund is eligible for the growth investment quota of the NISA, a tax exemption system for small investments. At a ...

the Japanese government has issued fresh guidelines advising people to stay indoors in the event of Mount Fuji erupting, resulting in massive ashfall over the Tokyo metropolitan area. This comes ...

Later this year, the Tokyo Metro - along with UK rail, bus firm Go Ahead and Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo - will begin operating the Elizabeth Line in London. The newest Tube line in the UK ...

But he might still be behind bars if not for Hiroaki Murayama, a judge who in 2014 dared do something extremely rare in Japan's often intractable legal system: order a retrial. In a time of both ...

Not just a factor of his 6-foot, 7-inch height, Alan K. Simpson was a giant in Wyoming political history. The former 18-year U.S. senator for Wyoming died in Cody early Friday, March 14, at the ...

But he might still be behind bars if not for Hiroaki Murayama, the judge who in 2014 dared do something extremely rare in Japan's often intractable legal system: he ordered a ... of seven people in a ...