Kentaro Kitagawa, 65, had said he would "not contest" the allegations in the first hearing at the Osaka District Court on Oct. 25. He is accused of raping the woman while he was chief public ...

Kentaro Kitagawa, 65, admitted to the charges of constructive forcible sexual intercourse, defined as taking advantage of an unconscious victim or someone unable to resist, saying, “I will not ...

Kentaro Kitagawa, former head of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, will plead not guilty of raping a female prosecutor while in office in September 2018, his lawyer said Tuesday.

“I thought we had an agreement,” the sources quoted Kentaro Kitagawa, 64, as saying during questioning. Kitagawa headed the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office from February 2018 to ...

OSAKA -- A public prosecutor who claims to have been raped by her boss in an incident six years ago broke down in silent despair upon hearing that the man changed his plea to innocent, she said at ...

Kazuhiro Nakamura, the chief defense counsel for Kentaro Kitagawa, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 10, 2024. (Kyodo) OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A former head of the Osaka District Public ...

A woman who works as a prosecutor for the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office calls for prevention of secondary damages, such as harassment and defamation, in a case over alleged rape by her ...