A new U.N. standard inspired by Japan's volunteer probation officer system is being developed, government sources said Sunday ...

The family of a death row inmate who was executed while he was preparing to request a retrial has filed a civil lawsuit ...

The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their ...

In a recent survey by the Japanese Ministry of Justice, it was found that 4 out of 10 foreign residents in Japan have been refused tenancy because they were a foreigner. In this video, we explore why ...

Taipei and Tokyo have set 124° east longitude within the inverted triangle zone north of the Yaeyama Islands as a demarcation ...

The Ministry of Industry and Trade is proposing that biomass electricity be eligible for direct electricity trading through ...

The Justice Ministry’s draft of legal revisions to ... project representatives said. They said Japan’s legal system, lacking such a clear legal provision, remains far behind other ...

Justice Ministry bureaucrats also asked me to think ... scientifically that the death penalty deters crimes. Postwar Japan has seen four cases where a death-row inmate with a finalized sentence ...

"Her death was confirmed at a hospital on Thursday" after she was found lying in her cell at an Osaka detention center, an official from Japan's Justice Ministry told the AFP news agency.

Chisako Kakehi was sentenced to death for the murder of three men, including her husband, and the attempted murder of another man about a decade ago in a case that gripped Japan. Her death was ...

A British-led international coalition will send Ukraine 30,000 drones, London announced Thursday, amid uncertainty over the ...