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PLEA BARGAINING

Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 21, 2020
In Japan's first plea deal, Tokyo High Court nixes suspended term given to ex-exec
The former executive of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Ltd. was instead ordered to pay u00a52.5 million for conspiring with subordinates to bribe a senior Thai official.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 10, 2019
Two of Ghosn's former aides avoid indictment through plea bargain deal with Tokyo prosecutors
The foreign executives struck the rare deal between October and November by providing documents related to Nissanu2019s remuneration allegations, but they can be examined as witnesses, sources said.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 1, 2019
Ex-Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems executives convicted of bribes after company struck Japan's first plea bargain
A Tokyo court found two former executives of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems guilty of bribing a senior Thai official over a power plant project after the company struck a plea bargain — the nation's first.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 15, 2019
Prosecutors seek 18 months for ex-Mitsubishi Hitachi Power executives in landmark plea deal
Prosecutors said on Tuesday they are seeking a sentence of 18 months in prison for two former executives of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Inc. for allegedly bribing a Thai official over a power plant project, in a case that became well known for being the country's first to involve a plea bargain deal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 26, 2018
Victim of plea bargaining? Carlos Ghosn's arrest based on murky evidence, former prosecutor says
A prominent lawyer and plea deal expert said Monday that Nissan's ex-Chairman Carlos Ghosn, suspected of violating financial law, may have fallen victim to Japan's recently established plea bargaining system, leading to an arrest despite a lack of clear incriminating evidence.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 31, 2018
Japanese-style plea bargaining debuts but authorities fear spread of false testimony
Japan on Friday introduced a bargaining system as part of an overhaul of its criminal investigation and trial systems, while battling concerns the new practice could encourage suspects or defendants to make false statements that lead to miscarriages of justice.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 24, 2018
Japan plans to introduce the right to plea bargain in June
The government is planning to introduce the right to plea bargain by putting into effect a revised law on criminal proceedings on June 1, government sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Dec 20, 2017
Major contractor eyes plea bargain system as route to evade criminal prosecution
Major Japanese construction company Obayashi Corp., which is at the heart of a scandal over collusion in bidding for a maglev train link project, has decided to take a rare and pre-emptive step: Come clean about its role, and possibly evade criminal prosecution.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 29, 2016
Critics hit Japan's new plea-bargaining system, say it opens door to false testimony
Katsumi Murase, a former senior official in the Nagoya Municipal Government, still remembers the time in 2003 when prosecutors interrogated him over a bid-rigging case in connection with a road cleaning contract.
JAPAN
May 24, 2016
Diet passes legislation to revamp Japan's criminal justice system
New legislation increases video recording of interrogations, expands the reach of the wiretap law and introduces plea bargains.
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2015
Criminal justice system reform
Bills to reform the nation's criminal justice system may not accomplish the original goal of preventing false charges.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 9, 2014
Ministry panel backpedals on promise to revamp justice system
Despite growing criticism of the countryu2019s notoriously opaque criminal justice system, a government panel tasked with revamping it has opted not to back the mandatory recording of interrogations.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 2, 2014
Most criminal interrogations in Japan will remain opaque
At least 97 percent of criminal interrogations would continue to go unrecorded, under the terms of a draft being considered by a Justice Ministry advisory panel.
EDITORIALS
Jul 1, 2014
Say no to plea bargaining
The biggest problem with plea bargaining, which a special legislative panel has recommended introducing into Japan's criminal investigative process, is the possibility that a suspect will make false confessions for a lesser punishment or wrongly implicate a person who has nothing to do with a crime.

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