The Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced a former employee of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank to two years in prison, ...

A woman from Myanmar who had worked for a ramen restaurant in Japan has sued its Tokyo-based operating company demanding some ...

In 2022, the Tokyo District Court ordered former executives of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay the company about 13 trillion yen ($92.6 billion) ...

The Tokyo District Court on Thursday ordered a pair convicted of uploading so-called ‘fast movies’ to YouTube without permission to pay JPY500 million ($3.5 million) to 13 film production ...

Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member, appeared in court on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to charges of accepting bribes related to the Tokyo Games. Takahashi ...

A Japanese district court has ordered the state to pay a total of 1.2 million yen ($8,260) in compensation to two asylum ...

Tokyo District Court judge Masaru Nomura says that former judge and Financial Services Agency (FSA) employee Soichiro Sato’s insider trading abuse has “greatly damaged” market soundness and ...

Nobuya Fukumoto, foreground center, a lawyer for the Unification Church, is surrounded by reporters after the church was ordered dissolved by the Tokyo District Court, in front of the court in ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Unification Church in Japan was ordered dissolved by a court Tuesday after a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister ...

Nobuya Fukumoto, a lawyer representing the Unification Church, outside Tokyo District Court on Tuesday. Kyodo via Reuters. March 26, 2025, 2:25 AM EDT / Source: The Associated Press.

On Tuesday, the Tokyo District court granted the request, writing that the church's problems were extensive and continuous, and a dissolution order is necessary because it is not likely it could ...

The Tokyo District Court’s revocation of the church’s legal status means it will lose its tax-exempt privilege and must liquidate its assets. However, the church can still appeal the decision ...