Last month, the Tokyo High Court ruled that Japanese law, which does not recognize same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional.

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 Tokyo High Court called the ongoing ban “a groundless legal discrimination,” saying it violates the constitutional ...

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 ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Former Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) chairman Tsunehisa ...

He was sued and prosecuted for his actions as chairman of the Japanese power company that ran the Fukushima nuclear facility ...

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 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 ...

The case is now pending at the Supreme Court. Katsumata also faced a civil trial filed by a group of TEPCO shareholders and was ordered by the Tokyo District Court in 2022 to pay damages exceeding ...

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