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CRIMINAL

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 1, 2014
Reform proposal calls for plea bargaining, limited recording of questioning
The Justice Ministry has released a reform proposal for criminal investigations and trials seeking to introduce mandatory recording of questioning in limited cases, expansion of wiretapping and introduction of a plea bargain system.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Mar 29, 2014
Tougher Juvenile Law proves divisive
Proposed changes for youth offenders satisfy calls by victims for harsher punishment, but critics express doubt at a time when juvenile crime is waning.
EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2014
Transparency in interrogations
A special panel of the Legislative Council proposes phasing in the process of electronically recording the full interrogation of a criminal suspect by an investigator. Will prosecutors go along?
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2014
JR Hokkaido faces criminal probe over data falsifications
The transport ministry filed a criminal complaint Monday against Hokkaido Railway Co. over alleged falsifications of maintenance data, prompting the police to open a criminal investigation into the matter.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 30, 2014
Criminal complaint filed over dumping of Fukushima radioactive waste in Shiga
A civic group filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors and police Thursday against four individuals over their alleged involvement in dumping in Shiga Prefecture radioactive wood waste produced at a plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 8, 2014
Ministry targets Novartis claims for legal action
The health ministry is making final arrangements to file a criminal complaint with prosecutors against Novartis Pharma K.K. over alleged exaggerated advertising for a blood pressure-lowering drug in violation of the pharmaceutical affairs law, ministry officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Jan 4, 2014
Here's eyeing Japan 2014 — warts an' all
"To know the future, look at the past," is a familiar Buddhist aphorism. However, it's also said that a prophet isn't honored in his hometown — which is why I live in Tokyo. As we ride into the Year of the Horse, I thought I'd canter awhile through times to come and report back on what I found. My apologies if some predictions are rather dire and dark; if you're easily offended, you're sure to be fuming by the time you finish. So: Off we go . . .
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 25, 2013
Activists file criminal complaint against Tokyo governor
A citizens' group has filed a criminal complaint against Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose for receiving ¥50 million from a hospital chain at the center of his campaign money scandal, sources said Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 3, 2013
Tepco dealt another criminal complaint
Three people file a criminal complaint against Tokyo Electric Power and 32 executives, claiming they neglected to prevent radioactive water at Fukushima No. 1 from flowing into the ocean.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 14, 2013
Papers that pushed for Pacific War revisited
Papers from the long-locked safe of the late Lt. Gen. Teiichi Suzuki, an Imperial Japanese Army wartime Cabinet minister, reveal his faulted argument that Japan had the wherewithal to wage war against the Allies.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 14, 2013
Kan says he shouldn't be held criminally liable for Fukushima disaster
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who led the government's response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011, says he shouldn't be held criminally liable for the crisis.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2013
Is U.S. still the land of the free?
It is not the United Stasi of America. Nevertheless, one still ought to ask how far one can trust the security and law-enforcement complexes to police themselves.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 31, 2013
MRI faces criminal complaint over losses
Japanese clients of MRI International Inc., a U.S. investment company suspected of mismanaging assets, filed a complaint Thursday with Tokyo prosecutors and police alleging fraud.
EDITORIALS
Mar 14, 2013
A troubling win in Kenya
On one hand, Kenya's presidential election could be viewed as a triumph of democracy — on the other, a nationalistic snub of the global community.
EDITORIALS
Feb 22, 2013
Reform panel pulls its punches
It is regrettable that a Legislative Council advisory panel pulled its punches in recommending that a suspect's interrogation be electronically recorded.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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