A Japanese high court on June 7 refused to grant a retrial to a man who served 17 years in prison for abducting and killing a 22-month-old boy near Nagoya, central Japan, in 2002.
A Japanese high court on June 5 denied a retrial for a 95-year-old woman who served 10 years in prison for the murder of her brother-in-law in 1979 in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.
A Japanese high court on March 24 rejected local residents' call to halt the operation of an idled nuclear reactor in western Japan, upholding a lower court decision.
Japan's Supreme Court issued a rare not guilty verdict on Friday, overturning the conviction of a Vietnamese woman for abandoning stillborn twins that she delivered alone.
A Japanese court reversed on March 20 a 12-year prison sentence handed down to a 36-year-old man for stabbing a police officer and stealing his handgun in western Japan's Osaka Prefecture in 2019.