The Tokyo District Court stripped the controversial group of its religious corporation status on Tuesday.
Japanese courts
The amount is the biggest such compensation granted in the country, according to the lawyers of ex-boxer...
The Osaka High Court’s ruling follows similar judgments made by the Sapporo, Tokyo, Fukuoka and Nagoya high...
The fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shed light on the Unification Church’s controversial practices.
In the same case, former Tokyu Agency director Mitsuo Yasuda, 62, was given a prison sentence of...
Shinobu Yamagishi, 62, the former president of Osaka-based real estate company Pressance, was seeking about ¥700 million...
The petitioner’s side immediately appealed the ruling.
Soichiro Sato, 32, used information obtained while on secondment at the Financial Services Agency to buy company...
The petition was filed over safety concerns by some 1,500 residents living near the plant in Ehime...
The district court decision clears the operation of reactors at Kansai Electric Power’s Takahama nuclear plant and...
