Japan's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage ... 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 ...
When the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Korematsu v. United States on December 18, 1944, it had been over two ...
Dec. 13 (UPI) --Japanese law prohibiting same-sex marriage from being officially recognized is unconstitutional, the country's Fukuoka High Court ruled on Friday. The decree marks the third time a ...
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.
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 issued one of its most notorious decisions: Korematsu v. United States. The plaintiff, Fred Korematsu, a 25-year-old Japanese American man from San Leandro ...
Tokyo – A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the “Black Widow” after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s refusal to recognize same-sex ... Advertising The rulings can still be appealed to the Supreme Court, but lawyers and plaintiffs say the overwhelming 8-1 wins are already ...
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 ...