Cannabis remains highly illegal in Japan. The Cannabis Control Act of 1948 prohibits possession, cultivation, and distribution, with violations punished by prison sentences of up to five years for ...

A Japanese court has ruled former executives at the utility managing the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...

In a 2024 article on Japan’s changing refugee policy in the Asia-Pacific Journal, Maximilien Xavier Rehm, a researcher at ...

Authorities in Cologne closed off a large section of the city center Wednesday, evacuating homes and businesses and ...

On the rural islands off the coast of Japan, a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links ...

The Japanese government is cracking down on unique children’s names – here’s what it means - Government bans unconventional ...

Japan's Supreme Court is expected to finalize a decision upholding the constitutionality of government regulations excluding a business in th･･･ ...

That law authorized ... supported the Japanese community to form. “With the transcontinental railroad. There were a lot of Chinese who came. But then, with the Chinese Exclusion Act, they ...

Edgar Chen, recounting laws excluding citizenship rights from Japanese and Chinese immigrants such as the Page Act of 1875 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, explained how the alien land laws, ...

“The problem with the law is that there is no oversight ... He had relocated there because it was outside the military exclusion zone where people of Japanese descent were prohibited under ...

The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial honors the 227 Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes and sent to internment camps for three years following the bombing of ...

Ostensibly aimed at all Asiatics, this provision was, in effect, if not intentionally, directed against a single nation -- Japan -- for the reason that Chinese immigration had long been checked under ...