A Japanese court on Monday held North Korea responsible for the human rights violations of four plaintiffs lured to the North ...

The plaintiffs said North Korea was marketed to them as "paradise on Earth".

The court ruled the four plaintiffs had “most of their lives taken away” by Pyongyang. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Four defectors who were lured to North Korea decades ago by propaganda that promised a "paradise on Earth" but turned out to ...

A Tokyo court orders North Korea to compensate migrants deceived by propaganda and subjected to forced labour decades ago.

A Japanese court has ruled that North Korea must pay 88 million yen (approximately 820 million Korean won) in compensation to ...

In a January 26 ruling, a Japanese district court held the North Korean government liable for grave human rights violations against Koreans and Japanese citizens lured to North Korea through its ...

Tokyo District Court on Monday ordered the North Korean government to pay 88 million yen in compensation to a total of four North Korean defectors and bereaved relatives in Japan over its alleged huma ...

Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced an 82-year-old former chairman of major publisher Kadokawa Corp. to two and a half years in prison, suspended for four years, in a high-profile bribery case ...

The resident suspected of stabbing two officials, one of whom later died, reportedly told police “I didn’t intend to kill ...