Japan's army let a company commander ignore a soldier's sexual-assault report and log her exit as 'family reasons', and the state has now paid for breaching its duty of care.
Japan's compensation scheme for people it sterilised under a eugenics law its top court struck down reached under 5% of them in its first seven months, the government's own figures show.
Japan's immigration agency admitted its Nagoya center never passed on a dying detainee's pleas for a drip or a hospital, then told a court it can't say what staff should have done.
Japan's top court let stand rulings that the East Japan Immigration Center left a detainee crying 'I'm dying' without a doctor and unlawfully restrained another.