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April 26, 2013
Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki told reporters at an April 26 news conference that earlier the same day Japan hanged two death-row inmates for the first time in two months.
April 20, 2013
ISLAMABAD--A Pakistani court remanded former president Pervez Musharraf in custody for two weeks on April 20 as judges pushed ahead with plans to put the former army chief on...
April 06, 2013
BEIJING--A Chinese rights lawyer who was detained after he defended a practitioner of the banned Falun Gong movement has been released after being detained for more than two...
March 15, 2013
The Tokyo District Court ruled as unconstitutional a provision in a law that denies the right to vote to adults with mental disabilities who live under an official guardianship ...
March 01, 2013
Two U.S. Navy sailors were convicted and sentenced to prison on Mar. 1 for raping and robbing a woman on Okinawa in a crime that outraged many on the southern Japanese island.
February 02, 2013
NEW DELHI--Five men pleaded not guilty on Feb. 2 to charges they raped and murdered an Indian trainee physiotherapist, in a case that led to a shake-up of laws against sexual...
January 16, 2013
The Tokyo District Court ordered the metropolitan government to pay 1 million yen ($11,235) in damages and apologize to a successor group of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult for ...
January 03, 2013
NEW DELHI--Indian police have filed rape and murder charges against five men accused in the gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus last month.
November 08, 2012
KATMANDU—A man who lost 15 years of his life wrongfully imprisoned for murder condemned Japanese criminal investigators as incompetent.
November 01, 2012
BEIJING--A court in China has sentenced a man to eight years in prison for trying to form an opposition party and for online messages criticizing the ruling Chinese Communist...
June 30, 2012
Industry minister Yukio Edano took Tokyo Electric Power Co. to task for its refusal to hand over videos of teleconferences by senior utility officials during the early days of...
June 26, 2012
A “comfort women” photo exhibition opened amid protests and high security at the Shinjuku Nikon Salon in Tokyo on June 26, after Nikon Corp. reluctantly gave in to a court...
June 23, 2012
The Tokyo District Court on June 22 ordered Nikon Corp. to allow a photographer to use its venue for a “comfort women” exhibition that had been called off last month amid...
March 15, 2012
A court dismissed a charge against a man accused of sexually abusing two girls because one of the victims was deemed too young to be competent to file a criminal complaint.
November 24, 2011
Suzuki Motor Corp. announced Nov. 24 that it has begun arbitration proceedings in London with the ICC International Court of Arbitration to compel Volkswagen AG to dispose of...
October 13, 2011
SYDNEY--A court slapped a temporary ban on the sale of Samsung Electronics' latest computer tablet in Australia on Oct. 13, handing rival Apple another legal victory in the two ...
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