Human Rights Watch (headquartered in New York City; founded in 1978) is an international human rights organization that ...

The family of a wrongfully arrested Japanese man who died while in prolonged pre-trial detention sued the state on April 6, seeking to hold judges accountable for repeatedly denying him bail. This is ...

Columnist Justice B. Hill reflects on a Cleveland friend trying to help an American who remains detained in Japan’s justice ...

You are basically held hostage until you give the prosecutors what they want. This is not how a criminal justice system should work in a healthy society. —Nobuo Gohara, former prosecutor, quoted in ...

A series of negative moves by Japan concerning the Yasukuni Shrine blatantly provoke international justice and trample on human conscience; China is deeply outraged by such acts and strongly condemns ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A former Japanese justice minister and his lawmaker wife were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of vote-buying, prosecutors said, in a serious blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he ...

As chief of Namibia’s offender rehabilitation programs, Mariana Martin knew the potential benefits of an effective probation system. The country had long struggled with the effective supervision of ...