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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Depardieu Sentenced for Sexual Assault - Paris

One of the plaintiffs, Amelie after the verdict in the sexual assault trial of the French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu at a courthouse in Paris, on May 13, 2025. The Paris Magistrates' Court has given French actor Gérard Depardieu an 18-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on the set of the film Les Volets Verts. The actor's lawyer, Jérémie Assous, quickly announced that he would appeal the sentence. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Luxury Real Estate Brothers Charged with Sex Trafficking in Miami

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - File photo dated on on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. Alon Alexander, 37, right, and his twin brother, Oren, left, attend their bond hearing at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, in Miami. The Alexanders have been charged with multiple state and federal crimes, including sex trafficking and rape. Star real estate agents Oren and Tal Alexander, along with their brother Alon, are accused of sex trafficking in New York and Miami. Seventeen complaints have been filed against them for rape and sexual assault between 2011 and 2019, some cases involving drugs. Prosecutors claim to have taken testimony from more than 60 alleged victims. Despite their denials, the accusations are piling up, revealing the scale of the charges. The case is being closely monitored by AVA Law Group, which is also representing several plaintiffs in the P. Diddy case. Photo by Matias J Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Driving school ordered to pay damages over tsunami deaths

SENDAI, Japan - One of the plaintiffs (2nd from L) who sought damages from a driving school over the deaths of 25 students and a part-time employee in the March 2011 disaster meets with reporters in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai on Jan. 13, 2015. The Sendai District Court ordered the school to pay 1.9 billion yen to relatives of the victims, ruling it could have predicted the arrival of a tsunami after a massive earthquake hit.

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Court urges gov't to settle suits with hepatitis C patients

OSAKA, Japan - Tomoko Kuwata, one of 13 plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit against the government and drug makers, wipes away tears in Osaka on Nov. 7 after the Osaka High Court called on the government and the drug makers to reach a negotiated settlement with the plaintiffs, who were infected with hepatitis-C through tainted blood products.

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Court nixes Chinese damages claim over Japan chemical weapons

TOKYO, Japan - A plaintiff lawyer speaks to reporters outside the Tokyo High Court on July 18 after the appellate court ruled against 13 Chinese plaintiffs who were seeking compensation from the Japanese government for their sufferings caused by chemical weapons left behind by the Imperial Japanese Army in China at the end of World War II. ''Improper ruling,'' the banner says.

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Gov't again ordered to pay damages over hepatitis C virus infection

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs and their supporters express their joy on March 23 after the Tokyo District Court joined two other district courts in ordering the government to pay damages to people infected with the hepatitis C virus after being treated with tainted blood products. Presiding Judge Atsuo Nagano, acting on a 1,353 million yen damages suit, ordered the state and three drugmakers to pay a total of 259 million yen to 13 out of the 21 plaintiffs.

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Chinese sue Japan gov't over toxic gas containers

TOKYO, Japan - An 13-year-old Chinese girl (R), one of 48 Chinese who filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government seeking 1.43 billion yen in compensation, attends a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25. The Chinese plaintiffs were poisoned in 2003 by toxic gas leaking from containers abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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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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Court orders state to compensate workers for black lung disease

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Plaintiffs celebrate in front of the Kumamoto District Court in Kumamoto on July 13 after the court ordered the state to pay a combined 260 million yen in compensation to workers who got black lung disease from working on tunnel construction projects mainly ordered by the state, and to relatives of deceased workers.

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State, drugmakers ordered to compensate over hepatitis C infections

OSAKA, Japan - Tomoko Kuwata (L) and Seiko Takeda, plaintiffs in a damages suit, hold a press conference after the Osaka District Court ruled on June 21 that the state and drugmakers were responsible for nine out of 13 people who were infected with the hepatitis C virus after being treated with tainted blood products. The ordered them to pay a total 256 million yen in damages.

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State, drugmakers ordered to compensate over hepatitis C infections

OSAKA, Japan - Plaintiffs enter the Osaka District Court on June 21 before the court ordered the state and drugmakers to pay a total 256 million yen in damages to nine out of 13 people who were infected with the hepatitis C virus after being treated with tainted blood products.

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Mining firm, parent ordered to pay damages to black-lung victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Plaintiffs gather in front of the Nagasaki District Court on Dec. 13 before the court ordered Matsushima Coal Mining Co. and its parent, Mitsui Matsushima Co., to pay about 900 million yen in damages to the bereaved families of six deceased workers and 56 surviving black-lung disease victims.

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara sued for insulting French language

TOKYO, Japan - Malik Berkane, a 46-year-old principal of a French language school in Tokyo, speaks during a news conference on July 13 as he together with 20 other plaintiffs filed a damages suit at the Tokyo District Court against Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara for his insulting remarks against the French language last year.

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(1)Court rules Koizumi's Yasukuni visits were private

OSAKA, Japan - Plaintiffs, including a Taiwanese woman in traditional costume, enter the Osaka District Court in Osaka's Kita Ward on May 13 to hear a ruling on their lawsuit seeking damages over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to war-related Yasukuni Shrine. The court rejected the lawsuit filed by 236 people, including 124 from Taiwan.

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(2)Koizumi's Yasukuni visits ruled unconstitutional

FUKUOKA, Japan - One of plaintiffs speaks at a press conference after the Fukuoka District Court ruled April 7 that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo are unconstitutional. The decision was handed down in a suit filed by 211 plaintiffs in the Kyushu region who claimed the premier's visit to the Shinto shrine on Aug. 13, 2001, violated the constitutional separation of state and religion.

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(1)Gov't ordered to compensate Chinese victims of poison gas

TOKYO, Japan - A lawyer for 13 Chinese plaintiffs, suing the Japanese government for compensation for injuries and fatalities caused by chemical weapons left in China by the Imperial Japanese Army, holds up a paper in front of the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 29 announcing their victory in the suit.

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Damages given over base noise

TACHIKAWA, Japan - One of plaintiffs holds a banner telling their supporters of their victory after the Hachioji branch of the Tokyo District Court ordered the government May 13 to pay around 160 million yen in compensation to 242 out of the 325 people who sued the government over aircraft noise at the U.S. forces' Yokota air base in western Tokyo. But the court rejected the plaintiffs' other demands for a ban on night flights and for damages from future aircraft noise.

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Civilians file lawsuit over Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

OSAKA, Japan - Plaintiffs enter the Osaka District Court on Nov. 1 to file a lawsuit claiming that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi violated the Constitution on Aug. 13 when he visited Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo which honors Japan's war dead along with several Class-A war criminals.

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Gov't, plaintiffs settle court battle over Narita airport land

TOKYO, Japan - Hidemasa Koizumi (L), adopted son of the late Yone Koizumi, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 13 after a 21-year-old court battle was settled at the Supreme Court's No.1 petty court. Yone Koizumi had campaigned vigorously against the government expropriating her home and rice paddies for the Narita airport. The plaintiffs withdrew the suit, accepting the government's apology for insufficient discussions before the 1971 exploitation.

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Civilians file lawsuit over Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

OSAKA, Japan - Plaintiffs enter the Osaka District Court on Nov. 1 to file a lawsuit claiming that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi violated the Constitution on Aug. 13 when he visited Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo which honors Japan's war dead along with several Class-A war criminals.

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Trial over aging reactors starts

A group of people head to the Nagoya District Court on July 13, 2016, at the start of oral arguments over a lawsuit they filed. The plaintiffs seek to nullify a decision by the Nuclear Regulation Authority approving an additional 20 years of operation for two aging reactors -- Nos. 1 and 2 units of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama plant. The extension would put them beyond the government-mandated 40-year service period. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court nixes Chinese damages claim over Japan chemical weapons

TOKYO, Japan - A plaintiff lawyer speaks to reporters outside the Tokyo High Court on July 18 after the appellate court ruled against 13 Chinese plaintiffs who were seeking compensation from the Japanese government for their sufferings caused by chemical weapons left behind by the Imperial Japanese Army in China at the end of World War II. ''Improper ruling,'' the banner says. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara sued for insulting French language

TOKYO, Japan - Malik Berkane, a 46-year-old principal of a French language school in Tokyo, speaks during a news conference on July 13 as he together with 20 other plaintiffs filed a damages suit at the Tokyo District Court against Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara for his insulting remarks against the French language last year. (Kyodo)

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Court orders state to compensate workers for black lung disease

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Plaintiffs celebrate in front of the Kumamoto District Court in Kumamoto on July 13 after the court ordered the state to pay a combined 260 million yen in compensation to workers who got black lung disease from working on tunnel construction projects mainly ordered by the state, and to relatives of deceased workers. (Kyodo)

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State, drugmakers ordered to compensate over hepatitis C infecti

OSAKA, Japan - Plaintiffs enter the Osaka District Court on June 21 before the court ordered the state and drugmakers to pay a total 256 million yen in damages to nine out of 13 people who were infected with the hepatitis C virus after being treated with tainted blood products. (Kyodo)

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State, drugmakers ordered to compensate over hepatitis C infecti

OSAKA, Japan - Tomoko Kuwata (L) and Seiko Takeda, plaintiffs in a damages suit, hold a press conference after the Osaka District Court ruled on June 21 that the state and drugmakers were responsible for nine out of 13 people who were infected with the hepatitis C virus after being treated with tainted blood products. The ordered them to pay a total 256 million yen in damages. (Kyodo)

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Gov't again ordered to pay damages over hepatitis C virus infect

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs and their supporters express their joy on March 23 after the Tokyo District Court joined two other district courts in ordering the government to pay damages to people infected with the hepatitis C virus after being treated with tainted blood products. Presiding Judge Atsuo Nagano, acting on a 1,353 million yen damages suit, ordered the state and three drugmakers to pay a total of 259 million yen to 13 out of the 21 plaintiffs. (Kyodo)

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Chinese sue Japan gov't over toxic gas containers

TOKYO, Japan - An 13-year-old Chinese girl (R), one of 48 Chinese who filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government seeking 1.43 billion yen in compensation, attends a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25. The Chinese plaintiffs were poisoned in 2003 by toxic gas leaking from containers abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. (Kyodo)

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Mining firm, parent ordered to pay damages to black-lung victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Plaintiffs gather in front of the Nagasaki District Court on Dec. 13 before the court ordered Matsushima Coal Mining Co. and its parent, Mitsui Matsushima Co., to pay about 900 million yen in damages to the bereaved families of six deceased workers and 56 surviving black-lung disease victims. (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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Court urges gov't to settle suits with hepatitis C patients

OSAKA, Japan - Tomoko Kuwata, one of 13 plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit against the government and drug makers, wipes away tears in Osaka on Nov. 7 after the Osaka High Court called on the government and the drug makers to reach a negotiated settlement with the plaintiffs, who were infected with hepatitis-C through tainted blood products. (Kyodo)

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Driving school ordered to pay damages over tsunami deaths

SENDAI, Japan - One of the plaintiffs (2nd from L) who sought damages from a driving school over the deaths of 25 students and a part-time employee in the March 2011 disaster meets with reporters in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai on Jan. 13, 2015. The Sendai District Court ordered the school to pay 1.9 billion yen to relatives of the victims, ruling it could have predicted the arrival of a tsunami after a massive earthquake hit. (Kyodo)

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(2)Koizumi's Yasukuni visits ruled unconstitutional

FUKUOKA, Japan - One of plaintiffs speaks at a press conference after the Fukuoka District Court ruled April 7 that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo are unconstitutional. The decision was handed down in a suit filed by 211 plaintiffs in the Kyushu region who claimed the premier's visit to the Shinto shrine on Aug. 13, 2001, violated the constitutional separation of state and religion. (Kyodo)

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High court orders suspension of Ehime nuclear reactor

Lawyer Hiroyuki Kawai (R), who represents the plaintiffs, speaks in front of the Hiroshima High Court on Dec. 13, 2017, after the court decided in favor of the plaintiffs, revoking a lower court decision and ordering the suspension of the No. 3 reactor at the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court orders suspension of Ehime nuclear reactor

Lawyer Hiroyuki Kawai (C), who represents the plaintiffs, speaks in front of the Hiroshima High Court on Dec. 13, 2017, after the court decided in favor of the plaintiffs, revoking a lower court decision and ordering the suspension of the No. 3 reactor at the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(1)Court rules Koizumi's Yasukuni visits were private

OSAKA, Japan - Plaintiffs, including a Taiwanese woman in traditional costume, enter the Osaka District Court in Osaka's Kita Ward on May 13 to hear a ruling on their lawsuit seeking damages over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to war-related Yasukuni Shrine. The court rejected the lawsuit filed by 236 people, including 124 from Taiwan. (Kyodo)

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(1)Gov't ordered to compensate Chinese victims of poison gas

TOKYO, Japan - A lawyer for 13 Chinese plaintiffs, suing the Japanese government for compensation for injuries and fatalities caused by chemical weapons left in China by the Imperial Japanese Army, holds up a paper in front of the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 29 announcing their victory in the suit. (Kyodo)

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Damages given over base noise

TACHIKAWA, Japan - One of plaintiffs holds a banner telling their supporters of their victory after the Hachioji branch of the Tokyo District Court ordered the government May 13 to pay around 160 million yen in compensation to 242 out of the 325 people who sued the government over aircraft noise at the U.S. forces' Yokota air base in western Tokyo. But the court rejected the plaintiffs' other demands for a ban on night flights and for damages from future aircraft noise. (Kyodo)