Japanese "war orphans" win court battle
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A Japanese court on Friday ordered the government to pay compensation to scores of Japanese who were left behind in China as children in the closing days of World War Two.
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Japan's Sumitomo Trust and Banking -- the trust arm of a rival suitor for UFJ Holdings -- filed a new lawsuit as part of its effort to secure a deal which could create the world's largest bank.
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI  TOKYO - The Tokyo High Court rejected an appeal Tuesday by a group of Chinese seeking compensation for injuries caused by leaks from chemical weapons abandoned by retreating Japanese forces at the end of World War II.
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The case has focused attention on the tension between parts of JapanÂs corporate establishment and a recent tilt toward American-style capitalism.
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TOKYO - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a high court ruling giving the go-ahead for UFJ Holdings Inc to include its trust business in holding merger talks with Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc.
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Hiromasa Murakami went to see Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" to find out if an American could tell the Japanese side of a battle that became a symbol of U.S. patriotism, but for Japan was a bitter memory of defeat.
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SAN BRUNO, California  - Japanese Americans interned in U.S. government camps during World War Two gathered on Saturday at a former internee assembly center near San Francisco to recall events that many have spent decades trying to forget.
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BEIJING : The fate of 29 refugees who rushed a Japanese school in Beijing hung in the balance as Japanese consular officials interviewed them to find out who they were and what they wanted.
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A Sri Lankan court will decide if "Baby 81", who survived the tsunami, can be given to a couple claiming him.
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A former cult leader who masterminded a   poison gas attack on Tokyo subway trains in 1995 had his appeal   against the death penalty rejected by Japan's Supreme Court on   Friday.
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An international animal welfare group brought a landmark legal case accusing Japan's last commercial whaling company of killing more than 400 whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.
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THE family of an Iraqi civilian who was beaten to death allegedly by British soldiers while in their custody won a landmark case in the High Court yesterday that will have
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Â· Grand chamber of human rights court to hear appealÂ· Women argue that one will lose house when other dies
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Furor over the issue of war-era sex slaves highlighted yet again Japanâs unresolved history in the region.
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Japanese anti-war campaigners said they planned a "people's tribunal" over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that could symbolically hold the United States responsible for war crimes.
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For nearly four decades, he was a prisoner of the North Koreans. Then US Army deserter Charles Jenkins came to Japan this year, faced a court-martial and was sentenced to a month in jail.
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Japan's top court ruled on Tuesday that pictures by late US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe were not obscene, putting an end to nearly a decade-long battle over the country's censorship laws.