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The women’s 5,000m and men’s 10,000m trials were staged a week ago during thePrefontaine Classic in ...
A trial challenging Japan’s lengthy and grueling detention of criminal suspects opened in the capital Tokyo on Wednesday, ...
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.
Gary J. Bass’s new book delves into the Tokyo war crimes trial, which was far more complex and contentious than the Nuremberg proceedings.
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 ...
Ian Buruma reviews “Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia,” by Gary J. Bass.
Held for years without conviction, suspects face isolation and pressure to confess in a system decried by critics as ‘hostage ...
The bid-rigging trial around the Tokyo Olympics is playing out in a Japanese courtroom — more than two years after the Games closed — with advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies ...
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 ...
A senior member of a crime ring admitted Tuesday to helping it orchestrate robberies in Japan from the Philippines, as the ...
Tomonobu Kojima, 47, said, 'There is no mistake' regarding his charges of aiding robberies and committing fraud.