In 2024, three prominent high courts in Japan, the Fukuoka High Court, the Tokyo High Court and the Sapporo High Court, issued rulings recognising the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry ...

Crime victims' advocates and forensic specialists in Japan are urging courts to present actual crime scene evidence instead ...

NAHA, Okinawa — Two outspoken critics of Japan’s legal system have taken over the defense of Marine Maj. Michael Brown. Now representing Brown against charges he attempted to rape a woman ...

In Japan, guilt or innocence is just a matter of time. Police and prosecutors, critics of the system say, have the upper hand. They can interrogate suspects for up to 23 days before charging — ...

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s.Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest-serving ...