The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday ruled that the government's not recognizing same-sex marriage was against the country's ...

The district court here on Oct. 31 rejected a lawsuit by a group of six researchers and others over a university's abrupt ...

A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a man to life in prison for his key role in a robbery resulting in the death of a ...

The court dismissed the prosecutors’ appeal at the end of a second trial on Wednesday, upholding the ruling of the lay judge trial at the Tokyo District Court, Sankei Shimbun reported. The first ...

The state argued that same-sex marriages are not envisioned in the Constitution. In 2022, the Tokyo District Court found the provisions in question to be in a state of unconstitutionality.

The Tokyo District Court ruled on Thursday that Japan's dual nationality ban was constitutional, rejecting a claim by a teenage plaintiff who had lost his Japanese citizenship after acquiring ...

The plaintiffs appealed after the Tokyo District Court rejected their damages claim in November 2022, while saying that the ...

The decision follows a 2022 ruling by the Tokyo District Court, which described the same-sex marriage ban as in a "state of unconstitutionality" but stopped short of deeming it unconstitutional ...

A second high court has ruled that the Japanese government’s policy against same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.

The Tokyo High Court ruling was issued after the Tokyo District Court determined in 2022 that the ban on same-sex marriage was in a “state of unconstitutionality.” The term used by the lower ...

The Tokyo High Court declared Japan's current policy against same-sex marriage as discriminatory and unconstitutional, in a ruling on Wednesday. The case involved a Tokyo couple registered as ...

The Tokyo High Court ruled on Wednesday that not allowing same-sex couples to marry is unconstitutional, with the beaming ...