OSAKA--Three death row inmates filed a lawsuit with a district court here against ... and that it violates Japan’s Constitution, which prohibits cruel forms of punishment. The Criminal Law ...

Foot-dragging by Japan on ratifying a protocol to a U.N ... That would run counter to a Supreme Court ruling stating that the Civil Law’s provision requiring a married couple to have a common ...

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Thursday a judge's order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to facilitate the return to the United States of a ...

WASHINGTON—A cascade of Trump administration cases is flooding the Supreme Court, putting the justices on the spot over the administration’s aggressive moves to eliminate federal programs ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday required President Donald Trump’s administration to “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador but stopped short of requiring ...

The Supreme Court largely upheld an earlier order issued by the lower-court judge ordering the Trump administration to take steps to return the Maryland man from an El Salvador prison. The Supreme ...

The members of the Supreme Court including Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (center, front row) ruled against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs. MPI / Getty Images As the ...

Japanese regulators have accused U.S. tech giant Google of violating anti-monopoly laws, echoing similar moves in the U.S. and Europe.

(Mainichi/Takehiko Onishi) The spate of high court rulings in Japan that homosexual individuals being disallowed from having their partnerships legally recognized constitutes a human rights ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday his country does not plan to make big concessions and won't rush to ...