Japan's new justice minister Hideki Makihara has said abolishing the death penalty would be "inappropriate" despite the recent acquittal of the world's longest-serving death row prisoner. Japan and ...

Modern Japan’s numerous cultural divisions can be traced to historical contact with Western civilizations, according to Justice Hisashi Owada, former President of the International Court of Justice in ...

On Wednesday, in Japan’s Diet, the House of Representatives Committee on Judicial Affairs held a hearing on the country’s abusive “hostage justice” system. To pressure suspects to confess to crimes, ...

Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was dramatically re-arrested Thursday over fresh allegations of financial misconduct, less than a month after winning bail to fight three formal charges. Ghosn's ...

Japan's justice minister on Thursday became the second cabinet member to quit in a week, after allegations his wife broke election law while running for a parliament seat. Katsuyuki Kawai told ...

A man convicted of murdering nine people has been executed in the first use of the death penalty in Japan since 2022, the country’s minister of justice said at a news conference Friday. Takahiro ...

Japan's Justice Ministry said Tuesday that it will consider whether to introduce penalties for those who pays for sex, highlighting a gap in the country's prostitution law that punishes sellers but ...