Osaka District Court

Defendant in Osaka schoolchildren car attack refuses to speak at trial opening

Yuki Yazawa, 30, told the Osaka District Court he will keep silent so his words cannot harm the injured children, and that he does not seek a lighter sentence.

crime · 10 Nov

Man accused of driving into 7 schoolchildren tells Osaka court he will not seek leniency

Yuki Yazawa, 30, did not enter a plea at the first hearing of his attempted-murder trial over the 2025 incident in Nishinari, telling the court he would remain silent and wanted no reduction in sentence.

crime · 9 Nov

Ex-prosecutor's trial turns on consent as his old office watches coldly

A former head of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office admitted the charge, then withdrew his plea. At the second hearing, his accuser's sobs filled the courtroom and his former colleagues offered little sympathy.

crime · 7 Nov

Woman testifies at ex-Osaka prosecutor's trial: "Why, why did the top prosecutor do it?"

Kenjiro Kitagawa, 67, a former head of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, denies the charge of quasi-rape against a subordinate prosecutor; she took the stand against him.

crime · 7 Nov

Woman who survived a joint suicide is spared prison and tells an Osaka court she should have found a way for the two of them to live

The Osaka District Court sentenced a woman in her 50s to three years in prison, suspended for four, after she killed her long-term partner at his request. She had wanted to die since her teens. He had wanted to live.

society · 7 Nov