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SUPREME COURT

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2013
Ginsburg's tough decision: to stay or go?
Who dreamed up this bit of kismet? How did the stars align to make this spot of New Mexico desert the best place in the world on a late summer evening to be Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 28, 2013
Nothing is clear about court ruling on illegitimate kids
Evidently I was wrong.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Sep 5, 2013
End of unequal inheritance lauded
Legal experts said Wednesday's landmark decision by the Supreme Court that the Civil Code provision denying full inheritance rights to heirs born out of wedlock is unconstitutional was welcome but late in coming.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 4, 2013
Top court shoots down unequal inheritance rights
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court declares unconstitutional the Civil Code clause that denies full inheritance rights to heirs born out of wedlock.
EDITORIALS
Jul 7, 2013
Step toward equality under the law
The U.S. Supreme Court walked a fine line in ruling that same-sex couples are entitled to federal benefits. It washed its hands of the most polarizing point.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2013
Miranda warning to suspects needs updating
Miranda warnings to suspects are part of U.S. culture, but today that culture includes technological threats that the Supreme Court of 1966 could not foresee.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2013
Korematsu highlights danger of waiving constitutional rights
The 1944 U.S. Supreme Court affirmation of the wartime power to intern 'enemy' racial groups provides a sober reminder after the Boston bombings.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 16, 2013
Mad court rush could brake or bless Abe's vision
As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet rush to diminish the Bank of Japan's bothersome independence, join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations (sort of . . .), start pouring lovely, popular concrete before the summer House of Councilors elections and (sotto voce) maybe even amend the Constitution,...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2013
When Supreme silence is golden in America
As the recent U.S. Supreme Court arguments over same-sex marriage attest, silence plays a role in constitutional law just as it does in ordinary life.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 7, 2013
Government reveals contempt for constitution by ignoring it
Actor-emcee Kinya Aikawa has his own TV station on the Net, and because the only ads are for projects involving Aikawa and his equally famous wife, Midori Utsumi, he doesn't worry about making sponsors uncomfortable.

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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan