Iwao Hakamada is released from the Tokyo Detention House on March 27, 2014, after spending 47 years and seven months on death row. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The Supreme Court overturned a high court ruling that rejected a request by high-profile former death row inmate Iwao Hakamada for a retrial and sent the case back to the high court, paving the way for a possible acquittal.
In the ruling dated Dec. 22, the court s Third Petty Bench withheld judgment on a lower court’s decision to approve a stay of execution and order Hakamada s release, meaning he would unlikely be detained again.
But two of the five justices on the Third Petty Bench opposed sending the case back to the high court, arguing that a retrial should be held instead. Such instances are regarded as highly unusual.
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On 8 Dec 2020, the Third Petty Bench of the Supreme Court (Judge Katsuya Uga) dismissed an appeal in a case where a woman working at Japan Business Lab, a company that operates language schools, alleged maternity harassment. The plaintiff was fired a year after returning to work from maternity leave, at which point she switched from regular to irregular employee. In her suit, she had sued to be recognized as a regular employee by the court.
The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the district court, which determined that her dismissal was ineffective and ordered Japan Business Lab to pay one million JPY ($9,600) in damages. Instead, Judge Uga upheld the Tokyo High Courtâs decision, which ruled against the plaintiffâ¦
Japan top court sends back 1966 murder case to lower court over retrial
Japan s top court has sent back to a lower court a 1966 quadruple murder case in which a former professional boxer was sentenced to death, rejecting a high court s refusal to reopen the case, his lawyers said Wednesday.
Based on the top court decision dated Tuesday, the Tokyo High Court will again examine whether to reopen the case of Iwao Hakamada, 84, who was freed in 2014 after spending nearly half a century on death row. He has been struggling to clear his name over the murder in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.
Dynasty Warriors and
Fatal Frame game series.
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Tecmo infringed on Patent A with new content acquired through using a previous game and new software and on Patent B with a controller-vibrating feature when enemies are nearby.
The Osaka District Court ruled on December 14, 2017 that
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Tecmo infringed on only Patent B, and ordered the company to pay 5.17 million yen (about US$48,000) in damages and legal fees.
CAPCOM was dissatisfied with the Osaka District Court ruling and filed an appeal with the Intellectual Property High Court on December 27, 2017.
CAPCOM requested damages that totaled 983,231,115 yen (about US$9.12 million) for
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Tecmo s infringement of Patents A and B. The Intellectual Property High Court ruled on September 11, 2019 that only part of