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Meta faces $2.8 mil lawsuits in Japan over fake ads

Lawyers attend a press conference in Osaka on Oct. 29, 2024, after filing a lawsuit with the Osaka District Court against Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms Inc. over advertisements that fraudulently solicited investments with fake celebrity endorsements. The U.S. technology giant and its Japanese arm are facing lawsuits filed with district courts in Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Chiba and Saitama, with 30 plaintiffs seeking a total of 435 million yen ($2.8 million) in damages.

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Meta faces $2.8 mil lawsuits in Japan over fake ads

Lawyers head to the Osaka District Court in Osaka on Oct. 29, 2024, to file a lawsuit against Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms Inc. over advertisements that fraudulently solicited investments with fake celebrity endorsements. The U.S. technology giant and its Japanese arm are facing lawsuits filed with district courts in Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Chiba and Saitama, with 30 plaintiffs seeking a total of 435 million yen ($2.8 million) in damages.

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2nd lay judge trial gives man 4 1/2 years for attempted murder

SAITAMA, Japan - Three lay judges, including Kenji Kikuchi (2nd from R), and Michihiko Sassa (far R), a substitute candidate for lay judges, at the second trial involving such judges under Japan's new criminal trial system on Aug. 12 attend a press conference at the Saitama District Court after the trial. They gave an unsuspended sentence of four-and-a-half years to a man who attempted to kill a male acquaintance in the prefecture. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Defendant pleads guilty in Japan's 2nd lay judge trial

SAITAMA, Japan - One of the candidates to participate in Japan's second trial under the new system involving citizen judges speaks to reporters in front of the Saitama District Court on Aug. 10 before the trial opened there.

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Court orders McDonald's to pay overtime to manager

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Takano (R), manager of a McDonald's outlet in the city of Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecutre, and his wife Kuniko attend a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28 after the Tokyo District Court ordered McDonald's Co. (Japan) Ltd. to pay some 7.5 million yen in overtime and compensation to him. The court acknowledged his claim that while McDonald's had appointed him to a managerial post, he was not given any authority as a manager and therefore should have been paid for overtime.

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War-displaced Japanese withdraw suit to seek damages from state

SAITAMA, Japan - A group of 18 war-displaced women from China seeking 594 million yen in damages from the state for what they see as inadequate support after their homecoming walk toward the Saitama District Court in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture on Dec. 7 to withdraw their lawsuit against the state. They dropped the lawsuit after the government revised a law to beef up support for them in late November.

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Mugen President Honda found not guilty in tax evasion case

SAITAMA, Japan - Hirotoshi Honda, president of racing car engine maker Mugen Co., smiles during a news conference in Saitama on May 25 after the Saitama District Court cleared the president of charges that he evaded 1 billion yen in corporate tax.

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(2)Ringleader in stalking murder of student gets life term

SAITAMA, Japan - The Saitama District Court is in session for the trial of Takeshi Komatsu, 37, charged with the stalking and murder of a 21-year-old female college student who had broken up with his brother. The court sentenced him to life in prison. (Pool photo)

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(1)Ringleader in stalking murder of student gets life term

SAITAMA, Japan - People queue outside the Saitama District Court on Dec. 25 for admission tickets to a court session for the trial of Takeshi Komatsu, 37, charged with the stalking and murder of a 21-year-old female college student. The court sentenced him to life in prison.

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Saitama ordered to redress parents of slain student

SAITAMA, Japan - Kenichi and Kyoko Ino, whose daughter Shiori (pictured in the frame) was stalked and murdered in 1999 in Okegawa, Saitama Prefecture, despite filing a complaint with prefectural police, walk to the Saitama District Court on Feb. 26. The court ordered Saitama Prefecture to pay 5.5 million yen in damages to the parents because it had ''betrayed'' the girl's trust in the incident.

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Group files suit against ex-PM Abe state funeral

Plaintiffs walk to the Saitama District Court in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2022, to file a lawsuit against the state funeral scheduled for Sept. 27 for assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Another suit against security legislation filed

Plaintiffs head to the Saitama District Court near Tokyo on June 20, 2016, to file a lawsuit, arguing their right to live peacefully is violated by the government's ability to exercise the right of collective self-defense under new security legislation. The action by the 318 plaintiffs followed a series of similar suits filed nationwide. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mugen President Honda found not guilty in tax evasion case

SAITAMA, Japan - Hirotoshi Honda, president of racing car engine maker Mugen Co., smiles during a news conference in Saitama on May 25 after the Saitama District Court cleared the president of charges that he evaded 1 billion yen in corporate tax. (Kyodo)

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Court orders McDonald's to pay overtime to manager

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Takano (R), manager of a McDonald's outlet in the city of Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecutre, and his wife Kuniko attend a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28 after the Tokyo District Court ordered McDonald's Co. (Japan) Ltd. to pay some 7.5 million yen in overtime and compensation to him. The court acknowledged his claim that while McDonald's had appointed him to a managerial post, he was not given any authority as a manager and therefore should have been paid for overtime. (Kyodo)

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War-displaced Japanese withdraw suit to seek damages from state

SAITAMA, Japan - A group of 18 war-displaced women from China seeking 594 million yen in damages from the state for what they see as inadequate support after their homecoming walk toward the Saitama District Court in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture on Dec. 7 to withdraw their lawsuit against the state. They dropped the lawsuit after the government revised a law to beef up support for them in late November. (Kyodo)

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Man sentenced to death for killing ex-vice minister, wife

TOKYO, Japan - The Saitama District Court on March 30, 2010, sentenced Takeshi Koizumi (file photo), 48, death for killing a former top health ministry bureaucrat and his wife and attempting to kill another in a 2008 stabbing spree. Koizumi was convicted of fatally stabbing former Vice Health and Welfare Minister Takehiko Yamaguchi, 66, and his wife Michiko, 61 at their home in the city of Saitama on Nov. 17, 2008. (Kyodo)

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(1)Ringleader in stalking murder of student gets life term

SAITAMA, Japan - People queue outside the Saitama District Court on Dec. 25 for admission tickets to a court session for the trial of Takeshi Komatsu, 37, charged with the stalking and murder of a 21-year-old female college student. The court sentenced him to life in prison. (Kyodo)

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(2)Ringleader in stalking murder of student gets life term

SAITAMA, Japan - The Saitama District Court is in session for the trial of Takeshi Komatsu, 37, charged with the stalking and murder of a 21-year-old female college student who had broken up with his brother. The court sentenced him to life in prison. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Peruvian man sentenced to death over 2015 murders in Japan

People stand in line outside the Saitama District Court near Tokyo on March 9, 2018, for tickets to hear the ruling on Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena who has been accused of killing six people, including two girls. The court later in the day handed down the death sentence to the 32-year-old Peruvian man. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People line up to hear ruling on abduction case

People line up for tickets outside the Saitama District Court, near Tokyo, on Aug. 29, 2017, to hear the ruling on a 25-year-old man, who was accused of abducting a girl and holding her captive for two years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Daughter of ex-Saitama gov. gets suspended prison term

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo District Court on March 17 sentenced Momoko Ichikawa (file photo), a daughter of former Saitama Gov. Yoshihiko Tsuchiya, to 18 months in prison, suspended for four years, for embezzlement and falsification of reports on political donations. The court said Ichikawa illegally excluded 116 million yen in donations from reports on her father's political funds between 1998 and 2002. (Kyodo)

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Saitama moneylender pleads not guilty to insurance killings

URAWA, Japan - Photo file shows Shigeru Yagi, a moneylender who pleaded not guilty March 30 to charges of killing two people in a bid to collect their life insurance money at Urawa District Court in Saitama Prefecture. Yagi is accused of conspiring with three women in a string of alleged insurance fraud cases.