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OSAKA--A doctor at an immigration detention facility here has been suspended over allegations she was under the influence of alcohol while treating detainees in January.
Officials in charge of reservations for COVID-19 vaccinations in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, noticed a troubling discrepancy in the billing numbers after outsourcing the call-in system.
The Supreme Court rejected the appeals of a couple who ran the scandal-hit Moritomo Gakuen educational institution, effectively finalizing their prison sentences for defrauding the central and local governments.
OSAKA--Same-sex couples were left stunned by a June 20 court ruling that took the opposite position to a landmark decision last year that said the central government’s failure to recognize marriages between those of the same sex was unconstitutional and discriminatory.
Government practices, such as forced sterilizations, conducted under the former Eugenic Protection Law were so heinous that a court decided that the 20-year statute of limitations should not apply.