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Takamatsu High Court Takamatsu District Court (高松地方裁判所, in Kagawa), Tokushima (徳島), Kōchi (高知), Matsuyama (松山, in Ehime) At the ...
The modern Supreme Court was established in Article 81 of the Constitution of Japan in 1947. [1] There was some debate among the members of the SCAP legal officers who drafted the constitution and in the Imperial Diet meeting of 1946 over the extent of the power of the judiciary, but it was overshadowed by other major questions about popular sovereignty, the role of the emperor, and the ...
Chief Court Astrologer (陰陽頭, onmyō no kami) —the first-class officer of the Bureau of Court Astrology (陰陽寮, onmyō ryō), requiring the Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade. Chief Court Calendar-maker (暦博士, reki hakase) —a person recognized by the state as a learned person in charge of creating the state calendar. He needed the ...
(Potential justices are often 64 years old or above.) [2] This causes quick turnover of justices, which has resulted in a perception of the Court as a "nameless, faceless judiciary." [3] After appointment, Supreme Court justices are subject to a "people's review": an automatic retention referendum in which the voters may remove the judge from ...
The High Courts of Japan (高等裁判所) has the jurisdiction to hear appeals to judgments rendered by District Courts and Family Courts, excluding cases under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Criminal appeals are directly handled by the High Courts, but Civil cases are first handled by District Courts.
The Intellectual Property High Court (知的財産高等裁判所, Chiteki-zaisan-kōtō-saiban-sho) is a special branch of Tokyo High Court. Japan has eight high courts: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Sendai, Sapporo, and Takamatsu. Each court has jurisdiction over one of eight territories in the country.
The Court's decision was believed to be the first time the top court overruled a lower court ruling on obscenity. [1] 2005 No. 1977 November 1, 2007 Overseas Hibakusha Case: The Court found that the government's refusal to provide health-care benefits to hibakusha living abroad was illegal. It was the first time the Court declared a government ...
The Intellectual Property (IP) High Court was established on 1 April 2005, [2] in order to accelerate and reduce the costs of patent litigation in Japan. [3] The IP High Court hears appeals from district courts in Japan on patent actions and suits against appeal/trial decisions made by the Japan Patent Office (JPO). [ 2 ]