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Finland - MP Räsänen court ruling

Christian Democratic Party MP Päivi Räsänen comments the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeals at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 14, 2023. Räsänen is accused of three counts of incitements against a minority group. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finland - MP Räsänen court ruling

Christian Democratic Party MP Päivi Räsänen comments the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeals at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 14, 2023. Räsänen is accused of three counts of incitements against a minority group. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finland - MP Räsänen court ruling

Christian Democratic Party MP Päivi Räsänen comments the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeals at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 14, 2023. Räsänen is accused of three counts of incitements against a minority group. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finland - MP Räsänen court ruling

Christian Democratic Party MP Päivi Räsänen comments the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeals at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 14, 2023. Räsänen is accused of three counts of incitements against a minority group. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finland - MP Räsänen court ruling

Christian Democratic Party MP Päivi Räsänen comments the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeals at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 14, 2023. Räsänen is accused of three counts of incitements against a minority group. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finland - MP Räsänen court ruling

Christian Democratic Party MP Päivi Räsänen arrives to comment the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeals at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 14, 2023. Räsänen is accused of three counts of incitements against a minority group. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finland - MP Räsänen court ruling

Christian Democratic Party MP Päivi Räsänen, holding a Bible, comments the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeals at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 14, 2023. Räsänen is accused of three counts of incitements against a minority group. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finland - MP Räsänen court ruling

Christian Democratic Party MP Päivi Räsänen, holding a Bible, comments the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeals at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 14, 2023. Räsänen is accused of three counts of incitements against a minority group. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finland - MP Räsänen court ruling

Christian Democratic Party MP Päivi Räsänen comments the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeals at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 14, 2023. Räsänen is accused of three counts of incitements against a minority group. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finland - MP Räsänen court ruling

Christian Democratic Party MP Päivi Räsänen comments the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeals at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 14, 2023. Räsänen is accused of three counts of incitements against a minority group. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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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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Lower house of Poland's Parliament adopts judicial reform

STORY: Lower house of Poland's Parliament adopts judicial reform DATELINE: Jan. 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:05 LOCATION: Warsaw CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Sejm building 2. SOUNDBITE (Polish): ELZBIETA WITEK, Marshal of the Sejm (Courtesy of Sejm TV) 3. various of Polish and EU flags STORYLINE: Poland's Supreme Court reform bill, which was needed to unlock billions of euros in European Union (EU) post-pandemic recovery funds, was passed by the lower house of the country's Parliament (Sejm) on Friday. In the 460-member chamber, 203 deputies supported the bill, 52 were against (including 22 members of the ruling caucus) and 189 abstained (opposition parties), the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported. SOUNDBITE (Polish): ELZBIETA WITEK, Marshal of the Sejm "We vote on the whole project of the bill. Who is for the adoption of the entire bill? Who is against? Who abstained? Thank you. 444 deputies voted, 203 for, 52 against, 189 abstained. The Sejm passed the bill." The government itself was spli

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - A group of lawyers serving as prosecutors in former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa's trial enter the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, ahead of a ruling on charges of false political funds reporting. Ozawa, who faced the charges after an independent judicial panel of citizens determined criminal indictment was warranted, even after public prosecutors decided not to indict him, was found not guilty.

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DPJ kingpin Ozawa

TOKYO, Japan - Ruling Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa leaves home in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2010. An independent judicial panel recommended the previous day that Ozawa should be indicted over a political funds scandal involving his fund management body, making him the first politician to be indicted under the review system.

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Inquest into Ozawa's non-indictment

TOKYO, Japan - Ruling Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa (R) shakes hands with his key supporter, former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2010. An independent judicial panel has reportedly launched its second review of whether decisions by prosecutors not to indict Ozawa over false financial reporting by his political fund management body were appropriate.

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Prosecutors question Ozawa over political fund reports

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa (C), secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, leaves a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on May 15, 2010, after being questioned by prosecutors over his fund management body's alleged false reporting of political funds. The third round of questioning over the fund reports was conducted after an independent judicial panel decided last month that Ozawa merits indictment over the allegation.

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Bill to lower minimum age for reformatory entry clears panel

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the New Komeito party, stand to approve a bill to revise the Juvenile Law, including a provision to lower the minimum age at which minors can be sent to reformatories from the current 14 years to 12 years, at the House of Representatives Committee on Judicial Affairs on April 18.

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Chinese survivor of Nanjing Massacre wins suit against Japan authors

NANJING, China - Photo shows the Xuanwu District People's Court which ordered two Japanese authors and their publisher on Aug. 23 to pay 1.6 million yuan (about $200,000) to a Chinese woman who survived one of the greatest atrocities of Japan's World War II invasion of China. The court ruling is not binding since China and Japan have no bilateral judicial agreement that recognizes civil rulings in each other's countries.

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Lay judge bill clears lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Daizo Nozawa bows to House of Representatives members after the house plenary session passed a judicial reform bill to introduce a lay judge system in Japan on April 23 with the support of both the ruling and opposition parties.

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Wiretap bills rammed through upper house panel

TOKYO, Japan - The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), its junior coalition partner the Liberal Party (LP) and the New Komeito party on Aug. 9 railroad a set of bills paving the way for using wiretaps to investigate organized crimes through the House of Councillors committee on judicial affairs. The photo shows opposition party members of the committee rushing toward committee Chairman Kiyohiro Araki (C) after the forced passage.

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Father of boy killed in bizarre Kobe case urges legal curbs on perps’ book publication

Mamoru Hase, father of a schoolboy brutally killed in the 1997 serial murders in Kobe, Japan, submits a written request on July 15, 2015, to House of Representatives member Kunio Hatoyama, head of a project team on the relief of crime victims under the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on the Judicial System, calling for legal restrictions on the publication of books by perpetrators. Hase took the action after the publication of a memoir by the killer of Jun Hase, seeking to forestall secondary damage to victims and their families. Date: July 15, 2015,Place: Tokyo, JAPAN

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Bill to lower minimum age for reformatory entry clears panel

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the New Komeito party, stand to approve a bill to revise the Juvenile Law, including a provision to lower the minimum age at which minors can be sent to reformatories from the current 14 years to 12 years, at the House of Representatives Committee on Judicial Affairs on April 18. (Kyodo)

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Chinese survivor of Nanjing Massacre wins suit against Japan aut

NANJING, China - Photo shows the Xuanwu District People's Court which ordered two Japanese authors and their publisher on Aug. 23 to pay 1.6 million yuan (about $200,000) to a Chinese woman who survived one of the greatest atrocities of Japan's World War II invasion of China. The court ruling is not binding since China and Japan have no bilateral judicial agreement that recognizes civil rulings in each other's countries. (Kyodo)

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Death penalty finalized for woman over 1998 curry poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - The death penalty given to Mayumi Hayashi (file photo) over a 1998 curry poisoning case in which four people died and 63 others fell ill was finalized as the Supreme Court dismissed a petition against its guilty ruling last month, judicial sources said on May 20. (Kyodo)

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DPJ kingpin Ozawa

TOKYO, Japan - Ruling Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa leaves home in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2010. An independent judicial panel recommended the previous day that Ozawa should be indicted over a political funds scandal involving his fund management body, making him the first politician to be indicted under the review system. (Kyodo)

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Inquest into Ozawa's non-indictment

TOKYO, Japan - Ruling Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa (R) shakes hands with his key supporter, former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2010. An independent judicial panel has reportedly launched its second review of whether decisions by prosecutors not to indict Ozawa over false financial reporting by his political fund management body were appropriate. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors question Ozawa over political fund reports

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa (C), secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, leaves a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on May 15, 2010, after being questioned by prosecutors over his fund management body's alleged false reporting of political funds. The third round of questioning over the fund reports was conducted after an independent judicial panel decided last month that Ozawa merits indictment over the allegation. (Kyodo)

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - A group of lawyers serving as prosecutors in former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa's trial enter the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, ahead of a ruling on charges of false political funds reporting. Ozawa, who faced the charges after an independent judicial panel of citizens determined criminal indictment was warranted, even after public prosecutors decided not to indict him, was found not guilty. (Kyodo)

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Protest against judicial reforms in Poland

Protesters stage a rally outside the presidential palace in Warsaw on July 18, 2017, against the ruling Law and Justice party's planned reforms of the judicial system. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest against judicial reforms in Poland

Policemen stand behind a barricade outside Poland's lower house of parliament in Warsaw on July 17, 2017. The ruling Law and Justice party's planned judicial reforms, including a bill that will allow the party to appoint judges, has drawn a huge public protest. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest against judicial reforms in Poland

Protesters rally outside Poland's lower house of parliament in Warsaw on July 16, 2017, to demonstrate against the ruling Law and Justice party's planned reforms of the judicial system. The bill passed by the upper house the previous day will allow the party to appoint judges. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court rules against Okinawa's move to block U.S. base relocation

People attend a gathering on Sept. 16, 2016, in front of the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court after the court ruled against Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's move to block the relocation of a key U.S. air base within the island prefecture. The ruling became the first judicial judgment on the high-profile dispute between Tokyo and Okinawa that is certain to be appealed by the prefectural government. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lay judge bill clears lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Daizo Nozawa bows to House of Representatives members after the house plenary session passed a judicial reform bill to introduce a lay judge system in Japan on April 23 with the support of both the ruling and opposition parties. (Kyodo)

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Wiretap bills rammed through upper house panel

TOKYO, Japan - The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), its junior coalition partner the Liberal Party (LP) and the New Komeito party on Aug. 9 railroad a set of bills paving the way for using wiretaps to investigate organized crimes through the House of Councillors committee on judicial affairs. The photo shows opposition party members of the committee rushing toward committee Chairman Kiyohiro Araki (C) after the forced passage.