As part of revamping its laws relating to sex crimes, Japan has raised the age of sexual consent from 13 to 16 years. The limit had remained unchanged for over a century and faced flak for being one of the lowest in the world. This is the first time that Japan has changed its age […]
A Japanese high court on Wednesday 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 in 2002. While lawyers of Masaki Tanabe, 56, called for the case to be reopened, claiming his confessions during police questioning…
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 man has been sentenced to death in a retrial for the fatal robbery of an elderly couple at their home in March 2017. Hiroshi Yamada was given the sentence sought by prosecutors after the Nagoya District Court ruled Thursday that he had murdered the couple with the intention of…