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SUPREME COURT

EDITORIALS
Feb 8, 2017
Limiting the right to be forgotten
According to the Supreme Court, search results can be ordered deleted only when the value of privacy protection clearly surpasses that of information disclosure.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2017
Trump's court pick conservative but not extremist
Democrats should think hard before trying to depict Neil Gorsuch as a radical conservative — a bruising confirmation fight could push him in the wrong direction.
EDITORIALS
Dec 15, 2016
Air base noise pollution problem
A Supreme Court decision is likely to set precedents against lower courts granting compensation for problems caused by the operation of military aircraft.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 8, 2016
Supreme Court overturns ruling to suspend nighttime SDF flights at Atsugi air base
The court also denied the plaintiffs' call for compensation for future damages caused by noise pollution, but ordered the state to pay past damages.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2016
U.S. Supreme Court drops ruling ordering Samsung to pay $399 million to Apple
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that the South Korean company had to pay a $399 million penalty to its American rival for copying key iPhone designs.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2016
Trump top court pick would imperil Obama's health care, clean air, LGBT, other legacies
Republican Donald Trump's presidential election victory all but dooms major Obama administration initiatives that are already tied up in legal challenges and gives him the chance to appoint a pivotal fifth conservative justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 7, 2016
Obama's top court pick faces reckoning after Tuesday
Several intriguing scenarios could unfold after Tuesday's U.S. election to break the deadlock over filling a Supreme Court vacancy that has provoked a bitter nine-month standoff between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Oct 9, 2016
9/11: the day Japan's Supreme Court went (slightly) postal
How the Supreme Court dealt with its mail problem says much about the way the law works in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 26, 2016
Suit targets ruling blocking Obama's bid to shield millions from deportation
Immigration advocates on Thursday mounted a long-shot effort to revive part of U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to shield millions of immigrants from deportation by filing a lawsuit challenging the national scope of a court order that blocked it.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2016
Reid says Clinton will back Obama's Supreme Court pick
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said on Thursday he believed Hillary Clinton would stick with President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee if she won the Nov. 8 presidential election.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 27, 2016
Supreme Court, Nagoya reservoir seek to be free of 'Pokemon Go' characters
The Supreme Court has joined the chorus of complaints about the hit smartphone game "Pokemon Go," saying the nation's 486 courts should be excluded from areas where its characters — and players — can be found, it was learned Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 13, 2016
Justice Ginsburg enters political fray, terms Trump 'faker' with ego
In calling Republican Donald Trump a "faker," Ruth Bader Ginsburg thrust herself into presidential politics to an unprecedented degree for a U.S. Supreme Court justice in the modern era.
EDITORIALS
Jun 24, 2016
Capital punishment for a minor
Putting someone to death for crimes committed while they are a minor is a very serious business, one that deserves a great deal more study.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 24, 2016
Supreme Court rejects white woman's challenge to Texas school's affirmative action stance
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the consideration of race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman's challenge to a University of Texas program designed to boost the enrollment of minority students.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 10, 2016
U.S. top court sides with death-row inmate, hits prosecutor-turned-judge's potential bias
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a death-row inmate in a ruling warning of the hazards of judicial bias, slamming Pennsylvania's former chief justice for not stepping aside in a murder case in which he earlier had served as a prosecutor.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 24, 2016
U.S. top court rules for black Georgia death-row inmate who faced all-white jury
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday effectively overturned a black man's 1987 conviction for murdering a white woman, rebuking Georgia prosecutors for unlawfully excluding black potential jurors in picking an all-white jury that condemned him to death.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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