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INTERROGATIONS

EDITORIALS
Jun 4, 2019
Criminal justice reform is far from complete
Efforts to eliminate the risk of false charges and convictions need to continue even after the full implementation of the 2016 amendments.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 1, 2019
Japanese police and prosecutors now required to record some interrogations
Police and prosecutors are now obliged to record interrogations of suspects in serious criminal cases as legal revisions fully came into force.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 23, 2019
Police recorded 88% of interrogations in lay judge cases across Japan in fiscal 2018
Police took complete video recordings during 87.6 percent of fiscal 2018 interrogations in criminal cases bound for lay judge trials, National Police Agency data showed Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 16, 2016
Japanese police to tape all interrogations of suspects facing lay judge trials
Japanese police will make audio and video recordings of the entirety of interrogations in criminal cases subject to lay judge trials on a trial basis starting Oct. 1, according to a new guideline formulated Thursday by the National Police Agency.
EDITORIALS
Jun 1, 2016
Problematic criminal justice reforms
Revisions to three laws are ostensibly aimed at reducing the prevalence of false charges in criminal cases but they could have the opposite effect.
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
Apr 13, 2016
A case for recording all interrogations
To eliminate the chance of wrongful convictions based on false confessions, interrogations for all crimes should be recorded in their entirety.
EDITORIALS
Mar 18, 2015
More chances of false charges?
The Diet should scrutinize whether the proposed revision to the criminal procedure law contributes to eliminating false charges and wrongful convictions.
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
Jul 4, 2014
Interrogation recordings pinched
The scope of crimes in which a special justice advisory panel has recommended electronically recording the entire interrogation process for suspects appears too limited.
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
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.
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?
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Unpacking the chaotic by-election in a scandal-hit Tokyo district
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