Japanese law prohibiting same-sex marriage from being officially recognized is unconstitutional, the country's Fukuoka High ...

Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers​, has ...

NAHA, Okinawa — The family of an Okinawan taxi driver assaulted by two Marines in 2008 has lost an appeal to the Supreme Court of Japan seeking additional compensation from the Japanese government.

Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision ...

TOKYO — Japan’s refusal to recognize same-sex ... The rulings can still be appealed to the Supreme Court, but lawyers and plaintiffs say the overwhelming 8-1 wins are already enough and ...

The Supreme Court has finalized a lower court ruling ordering a publisher to delete its lists of areas where people discriminated against as descendants of the country's feudal outcasts live or ...

On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in the case of Ex parte Endo, which has reverberated ...

Endo among 20 people who received the civilian medal that is awarded to U.S. citizens who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country.

The decree marks the third time a Japanese high court has ruled in a similar manner. Japan's legal system includes eight high courts including Fukuoka, which fall below the Supreme Court of Japan. A ...