Ex-Tokyo Games executive suspected of giving favors to ad agency ADK

Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive of now-defunct Tokyo Olympic organizing committee | KYODO

Haruyuki Takahashi, embattled former executive of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee, is suspected of serving as a mediator to make major advertising agency ADK Marketing Solutions a Tokyo Games outsourcing partner, sources have said. A special squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office suspects that Takahashi, 78, encouraged ad agency Dentsu Inc.

Japan government ordered to pay ¥1.65 million over death of man at immigration facility

The Higashi-Nihon Immigration Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture | KYODO

Mito, Ibaraki Pref. – A Japanese court on Friday ordered the government to pay ¥1.65 million ($11,500) in damages to the bereaved family of a Cameroonian man who died while being detained in an immigration control facility in Ibaraki Prefecture. The bereaved family of the man, who died at age 43 in the Higashi-Nihon Immigration

Japan’s top court upholds damages ruling in #MeToo rape case

Journalist Shiori Ito at a news conference in March in Tokyo | KYODO

The Supreme Court has finalized a ruling ordering a former senior television reporter to pay journalist Shiori Ito ¥3.3 million ($24,000) in damages over a high-profile rape case that helped spark Japan’s #MeToo movement. The top court upheld a Tokyo High Court ruling in January favoring Ito, saying Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a 56-year-old former Washington bureau

Japan’s top court rules state not liable for Fukushima disaster

Plaintiffs for lawsuits demanding that the government pay compensation for the Fukushima nuclear accident walk to the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Friday. | KYODO

Japan’s top court on Friday dismissed claims that the government should pay damages in cases involving around 3,700 people whose lives were seriously affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, absolving the state of responsibility for mass evacuations in the crisis. The decision by the Supreme Court’s Second Petty Bench was the first for the

Suspect admits guilt over attack against Thai monarchy critic in Kyoto home invasion

The Kyoto District Court. Prosecutors sought two years in prison Thursday for a 43-year-old man suspected of invading the home of Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a prominent critic of the Thai monarchy who is living in exile in Japan. | JOEL TANSEY

Kyoto – Prosecutors sought two years in prison Thursday for a 43-year-old man suspected of invading the home of Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a prominent critic of the Thai monarchy who is living in exile in Japan, and attacking him and his partner with a chemical spray. During the first hearing in the trial at the Kyoto

Juntendo University ordered to pay ¥8 million over rigged entrance exams

Juntendo University in Tokyo, which was ordered Thursday to pay around ¥8.05 million in damages to 13 women for rigging its entrance exams in favor of male candidates. | KYODO

The Tokyo District Court on Thursday ordered a Tokyo medical school to pay around ¥8.05 million ($63,000) in damages to 13 women for rigging its entrance exams in favor of male candidates, in what is believed to be the first ruling of its kind after a series of manipulations of exam results were uncovered in

Major Japanese movie companies sue trio over ‘fast movies’

Evidence, including personal computers, is displayed after being seized from three people who were found guilty of violating the copyright law by uploading 'fast movies' to YouTube. | KYODO

Thirteen major film production companies filed a civil lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court on Thursday alleging that three people had created 10-minute edited versions of their films — known as “fast movies” — and then uploaded them to YouTube without consent. The three have already been convicted in a separate criminal case, but the

In first, court rules Tokyo’s order to cut business hours amid COVID spread was ‘illegal’

Global-Dining Inc. President Kozo Hasegawa (second from left) holds a news conference in Tokyo in March last year. | KYODO

The Tokyo District Court ruled Monday that the metropolitan government’s decision to order the Global-Dining Inc. restaurant chain to reduce its business hours last year due to the coronavirus pandemic was “illegal,” in the first such ruling on COVID-19 measures imposed by the central and local governments. Presiding Judge Norihiro Matsuda said that the order

Japan train driver awarded ¥56 in docked wages for one-minute delay

The Okayama District Court awarded a JR West train driver ¥56 in docked wages over a one-minute delay on Tuesday. | KYODO

Okayama – A Japanese court on Tuesday ordered West Japan Railway Co. to posthumously return ¥56 ($0.45) it had deducted from the pay of one of its train drivers over a one-minute delay in 2020. While the Okayama District Court ruled that the pay cut by the Okayama branch of JR West was unjustified, it

Following law change, Japanese media name a 19-year-old suspect for first time

A house in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, that burnt down after a 19-year-old man allegedly murdered the couple living there and set the house on fire in October. | KYODO

Most major newspapers have published the name of a 19-year-old man who was indicted Friday in an alleged case of murder and arson in October — a first for them that follows revisions to various legislation that took effect April 1 to reflect the lowered age of adulthood from 20 to 18. Yuki Endo, from

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