Observed arrival · 2026-11-14
Kirokujo: Japan’s Judge and Judgment Database
A searchable Japanese database of judges and court decisions, with case counts, timelines, and rough judge-by-judge tendency labels.
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- Japanese legal researchers, journalists, and civic readers
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- The site calls its ideological colors rough estimates, notes that published judgments cover only part of judges’ actual caseloads, and says it is privately run.
Field notes
The homepage separates Supreme Court judges from high- and district-court judges, and presents lower-court entries with colored tendency markers before sorting by collected decision volume. Individual rows pair a court with a count and date span; the timeline includes matters such as welfare-benefit reductions and an onigiri trademark dispute. The site says court-published decisions represent only part of each judge’s actual caseload.
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●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
◉HumanPersonal, local, civic, or handmade
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