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1,300 file criminal complaint against TEPCO execs, others

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - People head to the Fukushima District Public Prosecutors Office in Fukushima city on June 11, 2012. Around 1,300 people mainly from Fukushima Prefecture the same day filed a criminal complaint against Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and 32 others, arguing they were responsible for causing the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and the exposure of the plaintiffs to radiation.

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1,300 file criminal complaint against TEPCO execs, others

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - People head to the Fukushima District Public Prosecutors Office in Fukushima city on June 11, 2012. Around 1,300 people mainly from Fukushima Prefecture the same day filed a criminal complaint against Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and 32 others, arguing they were responsible for causing the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and the exposure of the plaintiffs to radiation.

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Suit filed to seek decommissioning of Hamaoka reactors

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Plaintiffs carrying banners calling for an end to nuclear power walk to the Shizuoka District Court in the city of Shizuoka on July 1, 2011, to file a lawsuit seeking the decommissioning of the reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in the prefecture. Located in a major active fault zone, Chubu Electric Power Co. suspended the plant's Nos. 3 to 5 reactors in May at the request of the central government in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Hamaoka plant were deactivated in 2008 for decommissioning.

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AstraZeneca ordered to pay damages over side-effects of Iressa

OSAKA, Japan - Supporters of plaintiffs hold up banners in front of the Osaka District Court on Feb. 25, 2011, declaring victory in their case after the court ordered the Japan unit of British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC to pay a total of 60.5 million yen to nine of 11 plaintiffs who sought compensation over side-effects caused by the lung cancer drug Iressa.

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AstraZeneca ordered to pay damages over side-effects of Iressa

OSAKA, Japan - Hideki Shimizu (R), a plaintiff who demanded compensation over side effects caused by the lung cancer drug Iressa, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Feb. 25, 2011, together with Akio Chikazawa, a plaintiff in a similar suit filed in Tokyo. The Osaka District Court the same day ordered the Japan unit of British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC to pay a total of 60.5 million yen to nine out of 11 plaintiffs, including Shimizu.

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Court rejects suit against collective enshrinement at Yasukuni

OSAKA, Japan - Ryuken Sugawara (L), who heads the group of plaintiffs in a Yasukuni Shrine-related lawsuit, speaks to reporters in Osaka on Feb. 26 after a court ruling. The Osaka District Court turned down the lawsuit by nine relatives that called for the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo to stop enshrining 11 servicemen and civilian employees of the former imperial Japanese forces.

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21 more plaintiffs reach settlement in hepatitis-C damages suit

TOKYO, Japan - Some of the 21 plaintiffs from 11 prefectures suing the state and drug makers for hepatitis-C damages respond to questions from reporters in Tokyo after they settled their suit with the state in Tokyo on Feb. 29.

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Relief law enacted for hepatitis C sufferers

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs in a hepatitis C damages case show their emotions Jan. 11 after the House of Councillors at a plenary session unanimously passed into law a bill that will offer blanket relief to people with hepatitis C caused by tainted blood products.

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Relief law enacted for hepatitis C sufferers

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's House of Councillors at its plenary session Jan. 11 unanimously passed into law a bill that will offer blanket relief to people with hepatitis C caused by tainted blood products. Plaintiffs (top, R) in the case observe the plenary session.

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State loses damages suit over lung disease for 4th time

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Plaintiffs head to the Tokushima District Court in Tokushima Prefecture on March 28. The court ordered the state to pay a total of 57.2 million yen in damages to 26 people who contracted pneumoconiosis during state-ordered tunnel construction projects. The decision marks the state's fourth straight loss in similar lawsuits filed with 11 district courts.

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Court rules against residents' privacy versus registry network

KANAZAWA, Japan - Plaintiffs enter the Nagoya High Court's Kanazawa branch in Ishikawa Prefecture on Dec. 11. The court dismissed the residents' demands to protect their privacy from the national ''Juki Net'' electronic residency registry network, launched in August 2002, saying ''The Juki Net does not violate privacy rights and hence is not against the Constitution's Article 13.''

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Suit filed to have Yasukuni annul enshrinement

OSAKA, Japan - Ryuken Sugawara (4th from R), a 66-year-old Buddhist monk from Shimane Prefecture, Yang Yuan-huang (3rd from R), 51, from Taiwan, and other plaintiffs attend a news conference on Aug. 11 after filing a lawsuit with the Osaka District Court asking Yasukuni Shrine to annul the enshrinement of their war-dead family members honored there.

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Court rejects suit by kin of 11 Korean victims of forced labor

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo District Court on March 26 rejected a lawsuit filed by South Korean nationals on behalf of 11 deceased relatives, seeking compensation from the government for having forced the 11 to perform unpaid labor during World War II. Some of the plaintiffs look displeased as their lawyer speaks on the ruling at a news conference.

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Court rejects suit by 42 victims of forced labor

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyers for Chinese nationals seeking compensation from the Japanese government and 10 firms, for having forced them to perform unpaid labor during World War II, speak at a press conference in Tokyo on March 11 after the Tokyo District Court rejected their compensation demand. On the table are the photos of deceased plaintiffs.

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State ordered to pay 1.8 bil. yen to ex-leprosy patients

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Lawyers for former leprosy patients hold a banner in front of the Kumamoto District Court in Kumamoto on May 11 informing the patients of their court victory announced the same day. The 127 plaintiffs claimed the state violated their human rights by forcing them into isolation while undergoing treatment for the disease. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, ordering the state to pay them 1.82 billion yen in compensation.

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Plaintiff expresses joy over court verdict

KUMAMOTO, Japan - One of plaintiffs expresses his joy over the ruling by the Kumamoto District Court on May 11 that ordered the state to pay 1.82 billion yen in compensation to former leprosy patients who claimed the state violated their human rights.

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Lawyers urge state not to appeal verdict

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Mitsuhide Yahiro, representing lawyers for Kumamoto plaintiffs, speak at a news conference after the Kumamoto District Court ruled on their damages suit May 11. He urged the state not to appeal the verdict and instead take measures promptly to help the plaintiffs restore their honor.

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Plaintiff of Chinese forced labor suit Wang dies

TOKYO, Japan - Wang Min (photo taken in October 1994), a Chinese survivor of an uprising at a forced labor mine in northeastern Japan during World War II and one of the 11 plaintiffs of a suit against Kajima Corp. for compensation for the labor, died of heart failure Nov. 4 at a hospital in Hebei Province, northern China, his supporters said Nov. 6. He was 81.

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Daiwa Bank execs ordered to redress losses at N.Y. branch

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the head office of Daiwa Bank in Osaka on Sept. 20. The Osaka District Court the same day ordered Daiwa Bank's executives to pay the bank $775 million in compensation for losses incurred by the bank from unauthorized bond deals at its New York branch. Plaintiffs accused the bank's management of failing to take appropriate actions to prevent former New York branch trader Toshihide Iguchi from engaging in unauthorized U.S. Treasury bond trading over 11 years from 1984. Iguchi was convicted in the United States in 1996 and jailed.

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Japanese firm settles with 3 Koreans over forced labor

TOYAMA, Japan - South Korean women who sued machine tool maker Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. over their wartime forced labor speak to the media July 11 at Toyama prefectural hall after a settlement was reached with the company at the Supreme Court in Tokyo. The Toyama-based company will pay three South Koreans and their supporters between 30 to 40 million yen to settle the suit, filed in 1992. The plaintiffs comprise two women -- Lee Jong Suk, 68, and Choi Bong Nyon, 69 -- and one man -- Ko Dok Hwan, 77.

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Relief law enacted for hepatitis C sufferers

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's House of Councillors at its plenary session Jan. 11 unanimously passed into law a bill that will offer blanket relief to people with hepatitis C caused by tainted blood products. Plaintiffs (top, R) in the case observe the plenary session. (Kyodo)

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Relief law enacted for hepatitis C sufferers

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs in a hepatitis C damages case show their emotions Jan. 11 after the House of Councillors at a plenary session unanimously passed into law a bill that will offer blanket relief to people with hepatitis C caused by tainted blood products. (Kyodo)

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Japanese firm settles with 3 Koreans over forced labor

TOYAMA, Japan - South Korean women who sued machine tool maker Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. over their wartime forced labor speak to the media July 11 at Toyama prefectural hall after a settlement was reached with the company at the Supreme Court in Tokyo. The Toyama-based company will pay three South Koreans and their supporters between 30 to 40 million yen to settle the suit, filed in 1992. The plaintiffs comprise two women -- Lee Jong Suk, 68, and Choi Bong Nyon, 69 -- and one man -- Ko Dok Hwan, 77.

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A-bomb survivors seeks shutdown of nuclear plant

Plaintiffs including survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings head to the Hiroshima District Court in the western Japan city on March 11, 2016, to file a lawsuit demanding a halt to the operation of Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear plant in western Japan. One of the plaintiffs said, "We know the awfulness of radiation through our own experience." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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State ordered to pay 754 mil. yen damages over U.S. base noise

Plaintiffs in a 1 billion yen damages suit over noise at a U.S. base in Okinawa attend a press conference in the city of Okinawa on June 11, 2015, after the Naha District Court ordered the state to pay a total of 754 million yen in damages to them, ruling that noise from the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa caused serious damage to the quality of residents' lives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court to issue verdict on U.S. base noise

Photo taken June 9, 2015, shows the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa, surrounded by residential areas. The Naha District Court is to hand down a ruling on June 11 over a 1 billion yen damages suit, in which 2,200 plaintiffs living around the base argue that their daily lives have been disrupted by noise from the base. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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State ordered to pay 754 mil. yen damages over U.S. base noise

Plaintiffs in a 1 billion yen damages suit over noise at a U.S. base in Okinawa enter the Naha District Court on June 11, 2015. The court ordered the state to pay a total of 754 million yen in damages to the plaintiffs, ruling that noise from the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa caused serious damage to the quality of residents' lives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court to issue verdict on U.S. base noise

File photo taken in June 2014 shows the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa, and its surrounding residential areas. The Naha District Court is to hand down a ruling on June 11, 2015, over a 1 billion yen damages suit, in which 2,200 plaintiffs living around the base argue that their daily lives have been disrupted by noise from the base. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court to issue verdict on U.S. base noise

Kotaro Yakabi of Ginowan, Okinawa, talks about the noise and fear residents experience living close to the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station on June 9, 2015. The Naha District Court is set to hand down a ruling on June 11 over a 1 billion yen damages suit filed by 2,200 plaintiffs headed by Yakabi living around the base. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court to issue verdict on U.S. base noise

Photo taken June 9, 2015, shows the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa, surrounded by residential areas. The Naha District Court is to hand down a ruling on June 11 over a 1 billion yen damages suit, in which 2,200 plaintiffs living around the base argue that their daily lives have been disrupted by noise from the base. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Suit filed to have Yasukuni annul enshrinement

OSAKA, Japan - Ryuken Sugawara (4th from R), a 66-year-old Buddhist monk from Shimane Prefecture, Yang Yuan-huang (3rd from R), 51, from Taiwan, and other plaintiffs attend a news conference on Aug. 11 after filing a lawsuit with the Osaka District Court asking Yasukuni Shrine to annul the enshrinement of their war-dead family members honored there. (Kyodo)

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State loses damages suit over lung disease for 4th time

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Plaintiffs head to the Tokushima District Court in Tokushima Prefecture on March 28. The court ordered the state to pay a total of 57.2 million yen in damages to 26 people who contracted pneumoconiosis during state-ordered tunnel construction projects. The decision marks the state's fourth straight loss in similar lawsuits filed with 11 district courts. (Kyodo)

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21 more plaintiffs reach settlement in hepatitis-C damages suit

TOKYO, Japan - Some of the 21 plaintiffs from 11 prefectures suing the state and drug makers for hepatitis-C damages respond to questions from reporters in Tokyo after they settled their suit with the state in Tokyo on Feb. 29. (Kyodo)

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Court rejects suit against collective enshrinement at Yasukuni

OSAKA, Japan - Ryuken Sugawara (L), who heads the group of plaintiffs in a Yasukuni Shrine-related lawsuit, speaks to reporters in Osaka on Feb. 26 after a court ruling. The Osaka District Court turned down the lawsuit by nine relatives that called for the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo to stop enshrining 11 servicemen and civilian employees of the former imperial Japanese forces. (Kyodo)

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Court rules against residents' privacy versus registry network

KANAZAWA, Japan - Plaintiffs enter the Nagoya High Court's Kanazawa branch in Ishikawa Prefecture on Dec. 11. The court dismissed the residents' demands to protect their privacy from the national ''Juki Net'' electronic residency registry network, launched in August 2002, saying ''The Juki Net does not violate privacy rights and hence is not against the Constitution's Article 13.'' (Kyodo)

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Suit filed to seek decommissioning of Hamaoka reactors

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Plaintiffs carrying banners calling for an end to nuclear power walk to the Shizuoka District Court in the city of Shizuoka on July 1, 2011, to file a lawsuit seeking the decommissioning of the reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in the prefecture. Located in a major active fault zone, Chubu Electric Power Co. suspended the plant's Nos. 3 to 5 reactors in May at the request of the central government in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Hamaoka plant were deactivated in 2008 for decommissioning. (Kyodo)

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AstraZeneca ordered to pay damages over side-effects of Iressa

OSAKA, Japan - Hideki Shimizu (R), a plaintiff who demanded compensation over side effects caused by the lung cancer drug Iressa, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Feb. 25, 2011, together with Akio Chikazawa, a plaintiff in a similar suit filed in Tokyo. The Osaka District Court the same day ordered the Japan unit of British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC to pay a total of 60.5 million yen to nine out of 11 plaintiffs, including Shimizu. (Kyodo)

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AstraZeneca ordered to pay damages over side-effects of Iressa

OSAKA, Japan - Supporters of plaintiffs hold up banners in front of the Osaka District Court on Feb. 25, 2011, declaring victory in their case after the court ordered the Japan unit of British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC to pay a total of 60.5 million yen to nine of 11 plaintiffs who sought compensation over side-effects caused by the lung cancer drug Iressa. (Kyodo)

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Gov't ordered to pay damages over noise problem at U.S. Yokota base

Yoshikazu Ono (L), who heads a group of plaintiffs seeking damages over aircraft noise and a halt of some flights at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo, and Yasuo Sekijima, head of the plaintiffs' legal team, speak to reporters in the capital on Oct. 11, 2017, after the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court handed down a ruling on their lawsuit. While ordering the government to pay damages over noise around the base, the court dismissed the demand for a partial half to flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't ordered to pay damages over noise problem at U.S. Yokota base

Yoshikazu Ono, who heads a group of plaintiffs seeking damages over aircraft noise and a halt of some flights at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo, speaks at a press conference in the capital on Oct. 11, 2017, after the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court handed down a ruling on their lawsuit. While ordering the government to pay damages over noise around the base, the court dismissed the demand for a partial halt to flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't ordered to pay damages over noise problem at U.S. Yokota base

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit by residents over aircraft noise from the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo gather outside the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court on Oct. 11, 2017, ahead of the ruling. The court ordered the government to pay damages over the noise, but dismissed the plaintiffs' calls to halt some flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't ordered to pay damages over noise problem at U.S. Yokota base

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit by residents over aircraft noise from the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo gather outside the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court on Oct. 11, 2017, ahead of the ruling. The court ordered the government to pay damages over the noise, but dismissed the plaintiffs' calls to halt some flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't ordered to pay damages over noise problem at U.S. Yokota base

Lawyers (front) representing residents in a lawsuit over aircraft noise from the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo hold up signs in front of the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court on Oct. 11, 2017, showing the court's decision ordering the government to pay damages over the noise. The court, however, dismissed the plaintiffs' calls to halt some flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't ordered to pay damages over noise problem at U.S. Yokota base

Lawyers representing residents in a lawsuit over aircraft noise from the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo hold up signs in front of the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court on Oct. 11, 2017, showing the court's decision ordering the government to pay damages over the noise. The court, however, dismissed the plaintiffs' calls to halt some flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean court orders Japan firm to compensate ex-forced laborers

Kim Jae Rim (C), one of the South Korean plaintiffs in a suit against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., is pictured Aug. 11, 2017, after the Gwangju District Court ordered the Japanese company to pay Kim and three other victims of wartime forced labor a total of 470 million won (about $411,000) in compensation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court rejects suit by kin of 11 Korean victims of forced labor

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo District Court on March 26 rejected a lawsuit filed by South Korean nationals on behalf of 11 deceased relatives, seeking compensation from the government for having forced the 11 to perform unpaid labor during World War II. Some of the plaintiffs look displeased as their lawyer speaks on the ruling at a news conference. (Kyodo)

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Court rejects suit by 42 victims of forced labor

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyers for Chinese nationals seeking compensation from the Japanese government and 10 firms, for having forced them to perform unpaid labor during World War II, speak at a press conference in Tokyo on March 11 after the Tokyo District Court rejected their compensation demand. On the table are the photos of deceased plaintiffs. (Kyodo)

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Plaintiff expresses joy over court verdict

KUMAMOTO, Japan - One of plaintiffs expresses his joy over the ruling by the Kumamoto District Court on May 11 that ordered the state to pay 1.82 billion yen in compensation to former leprosy patients who claimed the state violated their human rights.

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Lawyers urge state not to appeal verdict

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Mitsuhide Yahiro, representing lawyers for Kumamoto plaintiffs, speak at a news conference after the Kumamoto District Court ruled on their damages suit May 11. He urged the state not to appeal the verdict and instead take measures promptly to help the plaintiffs restore their honor.

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Plaintiff of Chinese forced labor suit Wang dies

TOKYO, Japan - Wang Min (photo taken in October 1994), a Chinese survivor of an uprising at a forced labor mine in northeastern Japan during World War II and one of the 11 plaintiffs of a suit against Kajima Corp. for compensation for the labor, died of heart failure Nov. 4 at a hospital in Hebei Province, northern China, his supporters said Nov. 6. He was 81.