Tokyo District Court

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The Tokyo District Court is a major first-instance court in Japan’s judiciary that handles civil, criminal, and administrative cases within the Tokyo jurisdiction.

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Surface form Occurrences
東京地方裁判所 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf court of first instance
district court
adjacentTo Supreme Court of Japan
Tokyo High Court
appealsTo Tokyo High Court
buildingFunction courthouse
canIssue injunctions
judgments
orders
warrants
country Japan
employs court clerks
court interpreters
judges
judicial commissioners
governedBy Judicial Conference of the Supreme Court of Japan
surface form: Supreme Court of Japan (judicial administration)
governingLaw Administrative Case Litigation Act
surface form: Administrative Case Litigation Act of Japan

Code of Civil Procedure of Japan
Code of Criminal Procedure of Japan
Constitution of Japan
Court Act of Japan
surface form: Courts Act of Japan
handles administrative litigation against national government agencies
large-scale civil litigation
serious criminal offenses
handlesCaseType administrative cases
civil cases
criminal cases
hasDivision administrative division
bankruptcy division
civil division
commercial division
criminal division
intellectual property division
juvenile division
hasNotableRole central venue for high-profile litigation in Japan
hasOfficialNameInJapanese Tokyo District Court self-linksurface differs
surface form: 東京地方裁判所
hasSeat Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
surface form: Chiyoda, Tokyo
hasSubordinateCourt Tokyo Summary Court
hearsAppealsFrom Tokyo Summary Court
jurisdiction Tokyo Prefecture
surface form: Tokyo Metropolis
languageOfCourt Japanese
legalSystem civil law system
levelInJudicialHierarchy first instance
locatedIn Tokyo
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Tokyo Prefecture
surface form: Tokyo Metropolis
locatedInNeighborhood Kasumigaseki
partOf judicial system of Japan
trialBy lay judge system in certain criminal cases
panel of professional judges

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Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan contains Tokyo District Court
Tokyo High Court hasAuthorityOver Tokyo District Court
Tokyo District Court hasOfficialNameInJapanese Tokyo District Court self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 東京地方裁判所