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There has been a new development in a wartime labor lawsuit in South Korea against Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. A South Korean court has deemed that the company has received documents related to the sale of assets seized from it.

The issue stems from a ruling by South Korea's Supreme Court in November 2018. It ordered Mitsubishi Heavy to pay compensation to South Koreans who said they or their relatives were forced to work for the firm during World War Two.

Construction work for Japan's high-speed maglev train line is facing another hurdle, as farmers have launched a legal battle to block the project.

A total of 107 people, including tea farmers in the central prefecture of Shizuoka, filed a lawsuit with a District Court on Friday. They say that the construction of a tunnel could have a grave impact on their livelihood as it may reduce the flow of river water.

A Japanese journalist at the center of a high-profile rape case has filed a lawsuit against three people over their defamatory social media posts.

Ito Shiori met reporters after filing the suit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.

TOKYO — Nissan filed a civil suit Wednesday seeking 10 billion yen ($91 million) in damages from the Japanese automaker's former Chairman Carlos Ghosn.

Nissan filed the case in Yokohama District Court to recoup some of the monetary damages suffered, it said, "as a result of years of misconduct and fraudulent activity" by Ghosn.