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Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 13, 2021
Ex-top Tokyo prosecutor to face summary indictment over gambling
Hiromu Kurokawa had escaped indictment in July as prosecutors decided he had admitted to the gambling and received social punishment.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Mar 7, 2021
Japan Times 1921: Japan's heir sails today on what is epoch marking trip
A history-making trip by the emperor and a draft of the postwar Constitution make this month's look back on newspapers past particularly historical.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 5, 2021
Former SDF member sentenced to life in prison over fatal Toyama attack
Keita Shimazu killed an officer in a police box in 2018 before using the officer's gun to shoot dead a security guard at a nearby school.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Mar 3, 2021
Japan scores rare win with extradition of alleged Carlos Ghosn accomplices
The government clinched a much-needed symbolic victory in its prosecution of Carlos Ghosn with the successful extradition of two Americans accused of helping the ex-chairman of Nissan Motor Co. escape trial over a year ago.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 3, 2021
Ex-justice minister granted bail in Japan vote-buying case
Katsuyuki Kawai, a 57-year-old House of Representatives member, is accused of handing out a total of about u00a529 million to 100 individuals to reward them for votes for his wife.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Mar 2, 2021
Escape artists accused of freeing Carlos Ghosn can't evade reckoning in Japan
Emails, court documents and more than a dozen interviews detail the Taylors' failed quest to employ tactics that let so many well-connected people avoid legal trouble in the Trump era.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 2, 2021
U.S. suspects in Carlos Ghosn's escape arrested by Japan prosecutors
An airplane from Boston carrying Michael Taylor, 60, a former Green Beret, and his son, Peter Taylor, 28, arrived at Narita Airport near Tokyo on Tuesday afternoon.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 1, 2021
Two men found guilty of bid-rigging for Tokyo-Osaka maglev
The court handed down an 18-month prison term, suspended for three years, to both men, along with a u00a5250 million fine each.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 26, 2021
Japan approves bill simplifying court steps to identify cyberbullies
Changes to the law on internet service providers come after calls to tackle online abuse, particularly after last year's death of a cast member on a popular reality show.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 24, 2021
Top court says free land offer for Confucian temple was unconstitutional
The case, in Okinawa, is the third case in which the Supreme Court found a violation of the Constitution that bans religious organizations from receiving privileges from the state.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 24, 2021
Ex-Nissan CEO testifies against Ghosn in alleged financial misconduct
Hiroto Saikawa admitted during the trial of Greg Kelly, who was a close aide to Ghosn, that he signed documents outlining Ghosn's post-retirement remuneration in front of his boss.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 20, 2021
Government and Tepco ordered to pay ¥278 million over Fukushima crisis
The ruling overturns a lower court decision that had dismissed the state's responsibility for the 2011 nuclear crisis.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 18, 2021
Men charged in Ghosn escape plot ask U.S. to halt extradition
A letter from lawyers representing the father and son asked that the extradition be delayed at least until the men received their second COVID-19 vaccine doses.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 17, 2021
Ex-director sues Amnesty Japan for firing him over Japanese ability
Taro O'Sullivan said the organization hired him with the knowledge that he could speak Japanese at a conversational level but could barely read or write it.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2021
Ghosn’s accused escape plotters ask U.S. top court to delay extradition
The Taylors' lawyers in a late Thursday filing reiterated arguments that their clients could not be prosecuted in Japan for helping someone 'bail jump' and that, if extradited, they faced the prospect of relentless interrogations and torture.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 11, 2021
Ghosn exit was discussed early in 2018, Nissan insider says
Hari Nada, a senior vice president at the Yokohama-based company, was answering questions posed by the attorney representing Greg Kelly.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 6, 2021
Marijuana law reform in Japan contingent on the message
Japanese authorities have demonstrated a strong resistance to trends in other countries to decriminalize and even commercialize the drug's medicinal and recreational consumption.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 3, 2021
Six-year prison term upheld for ex-top Japanese bureaucrat over murder of son
The defense team had argued that even if a claim of self-defense was rejected, Hideaki Kumazawa should only have received a suspended sentence.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2021
Justice minister vows to undertake sweeping reforms to Japan's legal system
Public trust, child support and a better outlook for foreign nationals on the agenda for Yoko Kamikawa.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 27, 2021
Two Tokyo doctors indicted without arrest over toddler's death
The toddler received propofol equivalent to 2.7 times the level appropriate for an adult over about 70 hours.

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