Japan has taken a major step toward revising the country’s retrial system, which has been criticized as making the process of overturning a wrongful conviction excessively lengthy. But the prospects of swift reform are unclear, with fierce opposition from within the Justice Ministry to one of the key proposed changes — restricting objections from prosecutors…
A 35-year-old woman was found dead on a beach in Iwanuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sunday. According to police, the body of Yuka Gyoji, a nursery school teacher… © Japan Today
Most people in Japan expect U.S. President Donald Trump’s higher import tariffs to increase their living costs, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday. Asked in the nationwide survey about the potential impact of country-specific tariffs on U.S. trading partners including Japan, 84.2 percent of respondents answered that the higher taxes would undermine their livelihoods. The…
China’s leader Xi Jinping started a week of diplomacy in Southeast Asia with a visit to Vietnam on Monday, signaling China’ s commitment to global trade, just after… © Japan Today
Two Russian ballistic missiles slammed into the heart of the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, killing 34 people and wounding 117 in the deadliest strike on Ukraine this year, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanded a tough international response against Moscow over the attack, which came with U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to…
Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro on Sunday insisted that “everything’s fine with Elon” Musk, after the Tesla chief called him a “moron.” Musk, who as a fellow member of the American president’s inner circle was charged with government cost-cutting, has clashed with Navarro over the tariffs broadside the president unleashed that reflects his antagonistic…
The criminal trial of South Korea’s ousted leader Yoon Suk Yeol began on Monday over charges that he led an insurrection when he declared martial law late last year and plunged the country into months of turmoil. Yoon’s declaration that martial law was needed in part to root out “anti-state” elements was lifted six hours…
A woman in her 50s died after she was stabbed in a supermarket in Kiyose, Tokyo, on Sunday morning. Police said her husband, Takayuki Kanesawa, 58, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The incident occurred just before 11 a.m. at the Seiyu Kiyose store in front of Kiyose Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line,…
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has died, his son said Sunday. He was 89. “It… © Japan Today
As the Christian world commemorates Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday, the State Department has issued an appeal for its employees to report instances of alleged anti-Christian… © Japan Today
