The last and perhaps most significant time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked was during World War II. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the law to authorize the arrest, detention, and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify ...

The Trump administration faces legal challenges after deporting Venezuelan migrants under a rarely used wartime law.

In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...

Rooting out bad people who should not be in our country and deporting them is a good thing, but we must follow the fair and ...

It’s not something anyone likes to think about, but if you’re living in Japan—especially alone—you might have wondered: What ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Japan to stop retaliating against a UN committee for women's rights on Tuesday. The development follows the committee's recommendation that Japan revise its domestic ...

Common-law marriage refers to a relationship in which couples have not filed for marriage at government offices but are ...

On March 3, 2025, the Supreme Court of Japan upheld the original judgment that found patent infringement in respect of the acts performed on a ...

Japan's Foreign Ministry said it informed the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights not to allocate ...