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Description: In Western samples, individuals have been found to differ systematically in the importance they assign to matters of justice and injustice, and dispositional justice sensitivity (JS) can be differentiated according to the perspectives of victim, observer, beneficiary, and perpetrator. In a cross-cultural comparison between the Philippines, Germany and Australia, we investigated whether JS can be equivalently described by these four perspectives, whether the measurement instruments have invariant psychometric properties, and whether the psychological relevance of the JS perspectives with regard to cooperation behavior differ, between these cultural contexts. The results of multigroup confirmatory factor analyses support the assumption of weak measurement invariance, and invariant associations between JS perspectives and trust game decisions. Across cultures, JS victim predicted reluctance to cooperate under threat of exploitation, and JS observer, beneficiary, and perpetrator predicted cooperation under temptation. Our study extends insight into JS to underresearched collectivist cultural contexts of urban and rural Philippines.