Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Japan’s debate over LGBTQ+ rights has come to the fore in the past several years, ...

A long string of court rulings has upheld the right to same-sex marriage. How have these judgments intersected with public ...

In Japan, guilt or innocence is just a matter of time. Police and prosecutors, critics of the system say, have the upper hand. They can interrogate suspects for up to 23 days before charging — ...

NAHA, Okinawa — Two outspoken critics of Japan’s legal system have taken over the defense of Marine Maj. Michael Brown. Now representing Brown against charges he attempted to rape a woman ...

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s.Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest-serving ...