Terror financing laws limited by burden of proof
Last month it was revealed that a Bangladeshi former associate professor at Kyoto's Ritsumeikan University was wanted by police for his suspected involvement in the Dhaka terrorist attack that killed 20 people in a cafe, including seven Japanese. Mohammad Saifullah Ozaki had been teaching ...
Landmark new laws put suicide prevention front and center
In what was hailed as a landmark development, the Diet passed an amendment last week to the suicide prevention law for the first time since its enactment 10 years ago — this time requiring local-level authorities to take preventive action. Experts say the overhaul symbolizes ...
Immigration crackdown seen as paving the way for state to expel valid visa-holders
After successfully expelling visa overstayers over the past decade, Japan is now shifting its immigration control focus to a new target: people in the country on bogus visas. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has submitted a bill to revise the immigration control law that will ...
Christie warning over states where pot is legal: You have till 2017 to toke up
Residents in U.S. states that have legalized marijuana should toke up while they still can, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said. "If you're getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it," Christie, a Republican campaigning for the 2016 presidential nomination, said Tuesday during a town hall ...
China says NGOs need regulating for 'national security reasons'
China needs to better regulate foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) operating in the country for national security reasons, an official said on Wednesday, as the government drafts a law that has unnerved many aid groups. Fu Ying, spokeswoman for China's largely rubber-stamp parliament, said she understood ...
Japan mulls new legislation that would allow it to freeze the assets of people it deems terrorists to improve security for the 2020 Olympics.
The government wants a new law to spell out the legal procedures for collective self-defense as Prime Minister Abe pushes to reinterpret the Constitution.
