
National / Crime & Legal Aug 2, 2018
Financial damage from special fraud cases down in Japan but more juveniles implicated: NPA
Those under 14 cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions under the law.
Financial damage from special fraud cases down in Japan but more juveniles implicated: NPA
Those under 14 cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions under the law.
Parental help crucial in protecting children after school, MPD crime panel says
A Metropolitan Police Department panel determines that parents must step up to keep their children away from crime as most incidents tend to occur after school.
The government should think very carefully before lowering the age that minors receive protection from prosecution for minor crimes.
Number of juvenile criminal suspects in Japan hits record low
The number of juveniles investigated over crimes in the first half of the year dropped below 20,000 for the first time on record, due mainly to a decline in petty crime, police data showed Thursday. The number of juveniles involved in serious offenses also declined ...
Despite what the media says about juvenile crime, the kids are alright
In an essay he wrote for Asahi Shimbun's Internet magazine Webronza in June, professor Mikio Kawai, a specialist in "serious crime," revealed the results of a survey he conducted last March among 1,456 "older" people. He asked the respondents if they thought juvenile crime ...
Will hot-selling book bring Kobe killer in from the cold?
'June 28, 1997. I ceased being me. It was the day I was expelled forever from the world of sunshine. Up to then, I had nonchalantly spent my days unaltruistically, each passing day framed by the next as in a film, until the day ...
Life inside a juvenile correction center
Young offenders are encouraged to acknowledge the crimes they have committed before learning how to survive in the outside world after their release.
At a time when juvenile crime is decreasing, efforts to punish youthful offenders more harshly are misplaced.
Shifting the scales of juvenile justice
In light of 13-year-old Ryota Uemura's recent murder in Kawasaki, the country is once again split over whether or not to revise the law governing crimes committed by minors.
The changing motives behind juvenile crime in Japan
In a thought-provoking article in the February issue of Bungei Shunju, veteran journalist Kunio Yanagida ponders changes in the patterns of crimes committed by juveniles that have taken place since the end of World War II. In the postwar years, poverty was the key factor ...
Hitherto unknown and self-styled "loach" Yoshihiko Noda must learn to swim in an ocean of problems as Japan's new prime minister of the year. He has more than a plateful of domestic issues, but he should also realize, as his predecessors forgot, that Japan ...