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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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Justice minister loses seat in parliament

Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki is seen in his constituency in Fukushima city, northeastern Japan, on July 10, 2016, after losing his seat in the House of Councillors in the election that day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan enacts law for mandatory recording of suspect questioning

Japanese Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki (front) bows during a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on May 24, 2016, following the enactment of legislation to make a series of changes to criminal proceedings, including obligating police and prosecutors to record interrogations of suspects and expanding the scope of wiretapping by investigators. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Anti-hate speech law enacted

Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki (far R) bows on May 24, 2016, during a plenary session of the House of Representatives, which enacted legislation to ban discriminatory acts against specific races or ethnic groups. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Justice minister become latest Cabinet member to visit Yasukuni

Japanese Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki becomes the second Cabinet member to visit the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its latest festival season on April 23, 2016, although Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has refrained from visiting himself to avoid ruffling diplomatic feathers with China and South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Controversy over lawmaker's racial remarks

Japan's Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki attends a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2016. Regarding controversial remarks by Kazuya Maruyama, a Diet member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, over the ethnicity of U.S. President Barack Obama, Iwaki said it is necessary to create a society where human rights of each person are not violated. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan hangs 2 death-row inmates

Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki speaks at a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2015, after ordering the executions of two death-row inmates. It was his first order to put inmates to death since taking office in October. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan hangs 2 death-row inmates

Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki speaks at a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2015, after ordering the executions of two death-row inmates. It was his first order to put inmates to death since taking office in October. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's PM, justice minister meet ex-convicts in rehabilitation

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) and Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki (L) sit straight to listen to a resident of a relief and rehabilitation facility in Tokyo, which offers accommodation, meals and job training for people who have nowhere to go after serving prison terms, on Dec. 4, 2015. (Pool Photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 Cabinet ministers visit war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during festival

Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki is seen after offering prayers at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2015. Two Cabinet ministers visited the Shinto shrine during its annual autumn festival a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering without attending out of consideration for Japan's Asian neighbors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 Cabinet ministers visit war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during festival

Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki arrives at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2015. Two Cabinet ministers visited the Shinto shrine during its annual autumn festival a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering without attending out of consideration for Japan's Asian neighbors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 Cabinet ministers visit war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during festival

Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki speaks with reporters after offering prayers at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2015. Two Cabinet ministers visited the Shinto shrine during its annual autumn festival a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering without attending out of consideration for Japan's Asian neighbors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe reshuffles Cabinet

Mitsuhide Iwaki, a House of Councillors member of the Liberal Democratic Party, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2015, ahead of his appointment as justice minister in a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese firms catching up with art of global personnel management

Mitsuhide Shiraki, president of Waseda University's Institute for Transnational Human Resource Management, gives an interview at his office at the university in Tokyo on March 30, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Akechi Mitsuhide exhibition

Setsuzo Miyamoto of the Biwako Otsu Tourism Association explains about armor believed to have been used by 16th-century warrior Akechi Mitsuhide at a facility in Saikyo-ji temple in Otsu in Shiga Prefecture on Aug. 20, 2020. An event concurrently exhibiting items related to Akechi at four venues in the western Japan city will run through Feb. 7, 2021.

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Akechi Mitsuhide exhibition

Photo taken Aug. 20, 2020, shows armor believed to have been used by Akechi Mitsuhide on display at the main venue for an event concurrently exhibiting items related to the 16th-century warrior at four venues in Otsu in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan.

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Portrait of Akechi Mitsuhide

A portrait of 16th century feudal Japan warrior Akechi Mitsuhide, drawn in early 17th century, is put on public display by a temple in Kishiwada in Osaka Prefecture, on Feb. 16, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Portrait of Akechi Mitsuhide

A portrait of 16th century feudal Japan warrior Akechi Mitsuhide, drawn in early 17th century, is put on public display by a temple in Kishiwada in Osaka Prefecture, on Feb. 16, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Portrait of Akechi Mitsuhide

A portrait of 16th century feudal Japan warrior Akechi Mitsuhide, drawn in early 17th century, is put on public display by a temple in Kishiwada in Osaka Prefecture, on Feb. 16, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Compensation issue for leprosy patients' kin

Mitsuhide Yahiro, who jointly represents a group of family members of former leprosy patients who filed a lawsuit to seek compensation from the state for their suffering under the government's now defunct segregation policy, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 12, 2019, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offered an apology to them. Abe said earlier in the week the government will not appeal a recent court ruling in Kumamoto awarding damages to former leprosy patients' kin. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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.