The Tokyo High Court has overturned a lower court decision and ruled that legal provisions in Japan that fail to recognize ...

In a blow to the Japanese LGBTQ+ community, a court has ruled the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional. The ...

A court found Japan's refusal to legalize same-sex marriage was constitutional Friday in the last of six cases that are ...

A court in Tokyo has ordered a US internet infrastructure firm to pay over 3.2 million dollars in damages to major Japanese ...

The court found that unreasonable force used by police led to Arjun Bahadur Singh’s death in 2017 while in custody.

Tokyo High Court ruled Friday that Japan's Civil Code and other provisions that do not recognize same-sex marriage are constitutional. Presiding Judge Ayumi Higashi said that the current legal provisi ...

The Tokyo High Court on Nov. 19 awarded 39 million yen ($247,000) in damages to the family of a Nepalese man who died in ...

Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered U.S. information technology company Cloudflare Inc. to pay about 500 million yen in damages for assisting copyrights violations by pirated manga websites. In ...

The Tokyo District Court ordered the dissolution of the Japanese branch of the Unification Church, colloquially known as “moonies,” following an inquest from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports ...

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a unified decision in 2026 at the earliest. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

The Tokyo High Court on Friday ruled that Japan's failure to recognize same-sex marriages is constitutional, the first and ...

The court ruled that current civil law provisions preventing same-sex couples from marrying remain reasonable under existing conditions. This contrasts with earlier high court decisions in Sapporo, ...