The Tokyo District Court on Nov. 17 ordered a man and woman to pay 500 million yen ($3.6 million) in damages to 13 major film production companies for uploading minutes-long edited version of their films known as "fast movies" on video-sharing sites without permission.
A high court in Japan upheld on Nov. 9 a sentence of 5 years in prison given to a 40-year-old woman for starving her 5-year-old son to death in 2020 under a friend s influence.
A Japanese court dismissed on June 20 a damages lawsuit claiming the government s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, in contrast to a ruling last year that recognized it as violating the right to equality in a historic verdict.
Japan s top court rules the inability of Japanese citizens abroad to cast ballots to decide whether to dismiss appointed Supreme Court justices is unconstitutional.