The Sendai High Court in Miyagi Prefecture has overturned a 2021 lower court ruling by the Koriyama branch of the Fukushima District Court that sentenced a 51 year-old man to death for the hit-and-run deaths of two people in Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, in 2020. The court commuted the sentence of…
A Japanese court has ordered a high court judge to pay 440,000 yen in damages after posting messages on social media that the bereaved family of a high school girl murdered in Tokyo found offensive. Social media posts by Kiichi Okaguchi of the Sendai High Court were "thoughtless" and "inappropriate…
A Japanese court has ordered a high court judge to pay 440,000 yen ($3,300) in damages after posting messages on social media that the bereaved family of a high school girl murdered in Tokyo found offensive.