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Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 18, 2018
Japan's criminal justice reforms aim to enhance transparency of interrogations — are they working?
The National Police Agency said in early June that interrogations of crime suspects were fully recorded in 81.9 percent of all the 3,197 cases tried by lay judges in fiscal 2017, up from 72.8 percent the year before.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 25, 2017
Police getting better about providing fully recorded interrogations for serious crimes
More lay judge trials are making use of fully recorded interrogations ever since police adopted new guidelines to avoid coerced confessions, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
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 / Crime & Legal
Mar 22, 2016
Seven hours of video show changes in accused Tochigi killer's demeanor
The trial of accused killer Takuya Katsumata saw more than seven hours of his interrogation videos emerge, showing him flip-flop from one stance to another during the process.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 6, 2015
Soichi Terada arrives fashionably late to the global house-music scene
Good things come to those who wait. For 50-year-old producer Soichi Terada it's a wait that has lasted more than 20 years, but now he's one of the most in-demand artists in the house music scene, and has just returned from a tour of Europe that saw him perform in front of capacity crowds in some of the continent's most iconic clubs, including Panorama Bar in Berlin and Concrete in Paris.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 23, 2015
Police expand recording of entire interrogations
There were 575 cases in fiscal 2014 of police recording a suspect's entire interrogation, up sharply from a year earlier but still only 17.2 percent of cases subject to lay judge trials, preliminary data from the National Police Agency showed Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 20, 2014
More police begin full taping of suspects during questioning in 2014
Five more prefectural police forces have begun making audiovisual recordings of suspects under questioning in cases for lay judge trials in fiscal 2014, bringing the number to 13 out of the 47 prefectures, according to a Kyodo News tally compiled on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 1, 2014
Tiny progress in interrogations
The National Police Agency says its investigators electronically recorded the entire interrogation process in nearly 1 percent of the cases set for lay judge trials in fiscal 2013. For critics of past investigative abuses that led to the filing of false charges, this is some progress.
EDITORIALS
May 13, 2014
Get serious on interrogation reform
A Justice Ministry legislative proposal for dealing with criminal investigations and trials evades the duty of electronically recording all interrogations of criminal suspects while broadening the range of tools that investigators may use.
JAPAN
May 1, 2014
Justice wants opt-outs for interrogation tapes
The Justice Ministry has proposed that several exceptions be made to efforts to record interrogations by investigative authorities across the nation, while mandating that such recordings cover the entire interrogations process.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2013
Rights groups tell Japan to fully tape interrogations of criminal suspects
Human rights organizations submitted a petition Monday to the Justice Ministry urging the government to introduce full recordings of interrogations by prosecutors and police.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Jan 31, 2013
Diamond cries 'murder' on the dancefloor
In its Jan. 12 edition, the Japanese business magazine Diamond Weekly decided to ring in the new year with a 10-page feature titled, "Who's Killing Music?" It was the topic of much discussion and reaction in the music business, and the article even made the agenda during a meeting of the Japanese music industry's trade group the Recording Industry Association of Japan.
No link to Nankai Trough quake seen after temblor in Shikoku
Satoshi Harada from the Meteorological Agency explains about the magnitude 6.6 earthquake during a news conference early Thursday.
Thousands evacuated as Indonesia volcano erupts
Indonesia's Mount Ruang spews hot lava and smoke as seen from Sitaro, North Sulawesi, on Wednesday.
Why hasn't Japan moved to prop up the weak yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Snake on a train: Discovery of serpent delays Tokyo-Nagoya shinkansen
A Tokaido shinkansen. It is unclear whether the snake was venomous or how it ended up on the train, and there was no injury or panic among passengers.
Sex differences could be key to the successful treatment of long COVID
A new study has found that women with long COVID had significantly lower levels of testosterone compared to those who had recovered from their infection.
'House of the Owl' brings Hollywood values to Japanese TV
In the new Disney+ series “House of the Owl,” Min Tanaka (left) plays a powerful political fixer, or “kuromaku,” who has a troubled relationship with his adult children, particularly his idealistic son, played by Mackenyu.
Benefits and risks: AUKUS looks to take gamble on Japan
U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British leader Rishi Sunak deliver remarks on the AUKUS partnership, after a trilateral meeting, at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego in March last year.
Kyoto’s demon night parade lives to haunt another day
In a Kyoto long past, the "hyakki yagyō" (100 demon night parade) haunted a sleepy corner of Kyoto. Now, one enterprising monster enthusiast has won a small batttle to keep the march alive.
U.S. deploys midrange missile system in Indo-Pacific for first time
A U.S. Army Mid-Range Capability (MRC) Launcher arrives as part of the capability’s first deployment into theater on Northern Luzon, Philippines, April 8.
Unpacking the chaotic by-election in a scandal-hit Tokyo district
People listen to a campaign speech in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Tuesday.

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