A trial challenging Japan’s lengthy and grueling detention of criminal suspects opened in the capital Tokyo on Wednesday, ...

Yet the Tokyo trial still had its own legal ground to break. It was “more or less the touchstone for the possibility of organized international justice,” in the words of Dutch judge Bert ...

Gary J. Bass’s new book delves into the Tokyo war crimes trial, which was far more complex and contentious than the Nuremberg proceedings.

Ian Buruma reviews “Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia,” by Gary J. Bass.

The Tokyo war crimes trial is consequential not because of long-defunct Wilsonian daydreams about a world pacified by international law, but because it misfired and fizzled.

Held for years without conviction, suspects face isolation and pressure to confess in a system decried by critics as ‘hostage ...

TOKYO (AP) — A trial looking into widespread bribery at the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee began Friday with a former head of a major ad company admitting to the charges. Shinichi Uneo, who ...

Tokyo’s city government will give staff a four-day week in an effort to boost Japan’s declining birth rate. The country’s population is expected to fall for the 16th year in a row, and ...

Tomonobu Kojima, 47, said, 'There is no mistake' regarding his charges of aiding robberies and committing fraud.

Yet the Tokyo trial still had its own legal ground to break. It was “more or less the touchstone for the possibility of organized international justice,” in the words of Dutch judge Bert ...

A trial looking into bribery at the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has begun. The former head of advertising company ADK, Shinichi Uneo, is accused of paying nearly 15 million yen, or $110,000 ...