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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Court rejects Fukushima crisis damages order against ex-TEPCO execs

Plaintiffs and their lawyers gather in front of the Tokyo High Court in the Japanese capital on June 6, 2025, in protest over the court's decision earlier in the day to overturn a district court ruling ordering former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. to pay the utility damages for failing to prevent the 2011 crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

TOKYO, Japan, March 26 Kyodo - Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2025, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

TOKYO, Japan, March 26 Kyodo - Video taken on March 25, 2025, shows a building housing the Unification Church in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. The Tokyo District Court ordered the same day the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages. (Kyodo)

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Tomihiro Tanaka (R), head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2025, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2025, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2025, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Photo taken on March 25, 2025, shows a building housing the Unification Church in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. The Tokyo District Court ordered the same day the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2025, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Photo taken on March 25, 2025, shows a building housing the Unification Church in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. The Tokyo District Court ordered the same day the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Lawyer Nobuya Fukumoto (front) is surrounded by journalists in front of the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025, after the court ordered that his client, the Unification Church, be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Lawyer Nobuya Fukumoto (front) is surrounded by journalists in front of the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025, after the court ordered that his client, the Unification Church, be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Lawyer Nobuya Fukumoto (front) is surrounded by journalists in front of the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025, after the court ordered that his client, the Unification Church, be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Journalists gather around the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025. The court ordered the same day that the Unification Church be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Ad giant Dentsu fined 300 mil. yen over Tokyo Olympics bid-rigging

Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2025, shows the building housing the headquarters of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Group Inc. in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court fined the company 300 million yen ($1.94 million) the same day for its role in bid-rigging related to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

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Ad giant Dentsu fined 300 mil. yen over Tokyo Olympics bid-rigging

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 30, 2025, shows the building housing the headquarters of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Group Inc. in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court fined the company 300 million yen ($1.94 million) the same day for its role in bid-rigging related to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

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Ad giant Dentsu fined 300 mil. yen over Tokyo Olympics bid-rigging

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 30, 2025, shows the building housing the headquarters of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Group Inc. in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court fined the company 300 million yen ($1.94 million) the same day for its role in bid-rigging related to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

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Japan court ruling on unrecognized Minamata victims

Unrecognized sufferers of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease march to the Niigata District Court in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on April 18, 2024. The court later in the day recognized 26 plaintiffs as eligible for compensation by the company responsible but did not award them relief payments from the state.(Kyodo)

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Japan court ruling on unrecognized Minamata victims

Unrecognized sufferers of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease and their lawyers meet the media outside the Niigata District Court in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on April 18, 2024, after it recognized 26 plaintiffs as eligible for compensation by the company responsible but did not award them relief payments from the state.

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Japan court ruling on unrecognized Minamata victims

Unrecognized sufferers of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease march to the Niigata District Court in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on April 18, 2024. The court later in the day recognized 26 plaintiffs as eligible for compensation by the company responsible but did not award them relief payments from the state.

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Japan court ruling on unrecognized Minamata victims

Unrecognized sufferers of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease march to the Niigata District Court in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on April 18, 2024. The court later in the day recognized 26 plaintiffs as eligible for compensation by the company responsible but did not award them relief payments from the state.

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Gov't panel on Unification Church assets

A meeting of Japan's education and culture ministry with an advisory panel on religious corporations is held in Tokyo on March 6, 2024, on whether the ministry should strengthen monitoring of assets of the Unification Church while its legal status is under review. The government requested the Tokyo District Court in October 2023 to issue an order to dissolve the group for its aggressive donation solicitations and other malicious practices.

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Gov't panel on Unification Church assets

Japanese education minister Masahito Moriyama speaks at a meeting with an advisory panel on religious corporations in Tokyo on March 6, 2024, on whether the ministry should strengthen monitoring of assets of the Unification Church while its legal status is under review. The government requested the Tokyo District Court in October 2023 to issue an order to dissolve the group for its aggressive donation solicitations and other malicious practices.

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Gov't panel on Unification Church assets

A meeting of Japan's education and culture ministry with an advisory panel on religious corporations is held in Tokyo on March 6, 2024, on whether the ministry should strengthen monitoring of assets of the Unification Church while its legal status is under review. The government requested the Tokyo District Court in October 2023 to issue an order to dissolve the group for its aggressive donation solicitations and other malicious practices.

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Indecent assault case involving ex-Japan GSDF members

Rina Gonoi, a former member of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2023, a day after a district court convicted three former GSDF members for indecent assault in 2021 committed against her.

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Indecent assault case involving ex-Japan GSDF members

Rina Gonoi, a former member of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2023, a day after a district court convicted three former GSDF members for indecent assault in 2021 committed against her.

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Indecent assault case involving ex-Japan GSDF members

Rina Gonoi, a former member of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2023, a day after a district court convicted three former GSDF members for indecent assault in 2021 committed against her.

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Japan seeks dissolution of Unification Church

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 12 Kyodo - Japan's education and culture minister Masahito Moriyama attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 12, 2023, after revealing his ministry's decision to seek to strip the scandal-hit Unification Church of religious corporation status. (Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Japanese Novelist Yukio Mishima (C) attends a press conference, alongside Japanese novelist Sei Ito (R) and a lawyer, on Sept. 28, 1964, following a Tokyo District Court ruling ordering Mishima to pay 800,000 yen to Japan's former Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita. The court said the 1960 publication of Mishima's book "After the Banquet" so closely followed the events surrounding Arita's campaign to become governor of Tokyo that it violated the politician's privacy. The case is renowned as Japan's landmark judicial recognition of the right to privacy versus freedom of expression. The photo is taken from the book "The Chronicle: 70 years of postwar Japan (4) -- 1960-64 In the heat of the moment --," compiled by Kyodo News.(Kyodo)

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League of Blood Incident court hearing

TOKYO, Japan, July 28 Kyodo - The Tokyo District Court holds the first hearing on June 28, 1933, for the 14 civilians implicated in the so-called League of Blood Incident, a 1932 assassination plot by ultranationalists belonging to the league targeting wealthy businessmen and liberal politicians.

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May 15 Incident court-martial

TOKYO, Japan, July 28 Kyodo - The Japanese Imperial Navy holds the first hearing for a court-martial of the young naval officers implicated in an attempted coup called the May 15 Incident at an office of the Navy's Yokosuka administrative district in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on July 24, 1933. The incident was launched by reactionary forces of the Navy, supported by cadets in the Imperial Japanese Army and civilian remnants of the ultranationalist League of Blood on May 15, 1932.

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Tokyo's Kabukicho night-life district to have new skyscraper

The new 225-meter-tall skyscraper in the Japanese capital's popular Kabukicho nightlife district was shown to the media Thursday ahead of its April 14 opening. With 48 floors above ground and five below, Tokyu Kabukicho Tower houses two hotels and entertainment facilities like a theater, a concert hall and a movie house. "We want it to be a facility that specializes in entertainment and motivates people to come to the area," said Tomoo Kimura, an executive officer of Tokyu Corp., which engages in railway and urban development businesses. The theater can seat around 900 people and the concert hall has a maximum capacity of around 1,500, while the movie house has eight screens. The tower includes a gym and spas for members and a food court offering "B-class gourmet foods," or unpretentious but tasty meals, from around the country at affordable prices for the general public.

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Ex-Tokyo Olympic exec Takahashi granted bail

Former Tokyo Olympic executive Haruyuki Takahashi leaves the Tokyo Detention House in a wheelchair on Dec. 26, 2022, after the Tokyo District Court granted him bail in connection with a bribery scandal. Takahashi, 78, has been indicted four times on charges of receiving bribes in return for helping companies be selected as a sponsor or a marketing agent of the global event.

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Ex-Tokyo Olympic exec Takahashi granted bail

Former Tokyo Olympic executive Haruyuki Takahashi leaves the Tokyo Detention House in a wheelchair on Dec. 26, 2022, after the Tokyo District Court granted him bail in connection with a bribery scandal. Takahashi, 78, has been indicted four times on charges of receiving bribes in return for helping companies be selected as a sponsor or a marketing agent of the global event.

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Ex-Tokyo Olympic exec Takahashi granted bail

Former Tokyo Olympic executive Haruyuki Takahashi leaves the Tokyo Detention House in a wheelchair on Dec. 26, 2022, after the Tokyo District Court granted him bail in connection with a bribery scandal. Takahashi, 78, has been indicted four times on charges of receiving bribes in return for helping companies be selected as a sponsor or a marketing agent of the global event.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, entering the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 3, 2014. The court in a rare move summoned a death row inmate, Yoshihiro Inoue, as a witness in the trial of Makoto Hirata, following the questioning of another death row inmate in January.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - A police vehicle leads two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, as the convoy heads to the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 3, 2014. The court in a rare move summoned a death row inmate, Yoshihiro Inoue, as a witness in the trial of Makoto Hirata, following the questioning of another death row inmate in January.

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S. Korean court turns down arrest warrant for Lotte Group chairman

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 29 Kyodo - Undated photo shows Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong Bin. The Seoul Central District Court on Sept. 29, 2016 dismissed an arrest warrant request by state prosecutors for the 61-year-old business tycoon, also known by the Japanese name Akio Shigemitsu, on charges of embezzlement and breach of trust, according to local media.

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Ex-reporter seeks damages over magazine's "comfort women" articles

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Uemura, a former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 9, 2015, after filing a damages suit with the Tokyo District Court against a magazine publisher and a university professor, claiming that an article about his decades-old report on a former Korean "comfort woman" triggered threats and other serious violations of his rights.

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Ex-reporter seeks damages over magazine's "comfort women" articles

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Uemura (C), a former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter, heads for the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 9, 2015, to file a damages suit against a magazine publisher and a university professor, claiming that an article about his decades-old report on a former Korean "comfort woman" triggered threats and other serious violations of his rights.

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Yomiuri Giants defeat ex-GM Kiyotake in lawsuit

TOKYO, Japan - Hidetoshi Kiyotake, former general manager of the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball club, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014, after the Tokyo District Court ordered him to pay 1.6 million yen in damages for discrediting the club and its owner Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, rejecting his suit against his dismissal as general manager.

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Former death row inmate attends meeting against death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (R), a former death row inmate who was freed in March 2014 after nearly 48 years in prison following a court decision to reopen his case, and his sister Hideko, attend a civic meeting seeking an end to the death penalty, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 11, 2014. Hakamada, a 78-year-old former professional boxer, was sentenced to death for the murder of four members of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1966, but was freed after the Shizuoka District Court approved DNA test results that showed blood found on five items of clothing said to have been worn by the culprit was not Hakamada's.

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Former death row inmate attends meeting against death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (R), a former death row inmate who was freed in March 2014 after nearly 48 years in prison following a court decision to reopen his case, and his sister Hideko, attend a civic meeting seeking an end to the death penalty, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 11, 2014. Hakamada, a 78-year-old former professional boxer, was sentenced to death for the murder of four members of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1966, but was freed after the Shizuoka District Court approved DNA test results that showed blood found on five items of clothing said to have been worn by the culprit was not Hakamada's.

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U.S. court orders Takeda to pay $6 billion

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2010 shows the Tokyo headquarters of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. The company said Sept. 4, 2014, it has been ordered by a U.S. district court to pay $6 billion in punitive damages over a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed his bladder cancer was caused by Takeda's diabetes medicine Actos. Takeda plans to counter the move through legal means, including the option of appealing to a higher court, company officials said.

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TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Watanabe (C) heads for the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima with a picture of his late wife Hamako on Aug. 26, 2014. The court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of Hamako, who was forced to evacuate from her home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Watanabe (L), holding a picture of his late wife Hamako, answers reporters' questions outside the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima on Aug. 26, 2014, after the court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of Hamako. The couple was forced to evacuate from their home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Lawyers show triumphal banners in front of the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima on Aug. 26, 2014, after the court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of a woman forced to evacuate her home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.