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

TOKYO, July 27 -- Talks between two Japanese megabanks aimed at a merger that would create the world's biggest bank ran into a major obstacle Tuesday when a Tokyo court demanded the talks be scrapped.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 (AFP) — A Japanese pensioner forcibly sterilized as a 14-year-old under a now-defunct eugenics law failed Tuesday in a legal bid for $280,000 in state compensation. According to local media, ...

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 fined the Unification Church for failing to answer questions about its finances from the education ministry, a decision that could affect the very survival of the ...

TOKYO — A Japanese high court on Monday said the North Korean government was responsible for the human rights abuses of plaintiffs who said they were lured to the North by Pyongyang’s false ...