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Japan sees progress in decade of judicial reform, but lingering issues remain

National / Crime & Legal | FOCUS Sep 23, 2020

Japan sees progress in decade of judicial reform, but lingering issues remain

Recording of interrogations became mandatory in 2019 for cases dealt with exclusively by prosecutors and those handled by the lay judge system.

Japan police taped 94% of interrogations in fiscal 2019 lay judge cases

National / Crime & Legal Jun 18, 2020

Japan police taped 94% of interrogations in fiscal 2019 lay judge cases

Japanese police fully taped 94.2 percent of their interrogations in lay judge trial cases in fiscal 2019, a National Police Agency survey showed Thursday. The police across the country recorded interrogation processes of 3,828 cases out of 4,062 cases in the year that ended in ...

High court throws out lay judge death sentence over murders of five in 2015

National / Crime & Legal Jan 27, 2020

High court throws out lay judge death sentence over murders of five in 2015

A high court scrapped on Monday a lower court ruling that had sentenced a man to death for killing five people on Awaji Island in 2015, sentencing him instead to life in prison after reviewing his mental state at the time. The Osaka High Court ...

Japan proposal to lower age for charging youths as adults scrapped due to no consensus, sources say

National / Crime & Legal Jan 26, 2020

Japan proposal to lower age for charging youths as adults scrapped due to no consensus, sources say

The government plans to abandon for the time being an amendment to the age cap under juvenile law that would lower the age when individuals can be tried as adults from 20 years old to 18.

Past participants in Japan's lay judge system reveal its challenges

National / Crime & Legal | Regional Voices: Tohoku Aug 2, 2019

Past participants in Japan's lay judge system reveal its challenges

"The accused was sitting right there, so close to me, and yet I felt like there was an unbridgeable distance between us." Tomomitsu Shibuya, a 55-year-old pastor from the city of Aomori who served as a lay judge almost 10 years ago, recalls the day ...

Police recorded 88% of interrogations in lay judge cases across Japan in fiscal 2018

National 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. As the recording of interrogation video and audio will become mandatory in June based on the revised criminal procedure ...

Third of Japan's lay judges say experience was stressful, but system viewed positively overall

National / Crime & Legal May 21, 2019

Third of Japan's lay judges say experience was stressful, but system viewed positively overall

One in three citizen judges recently surveyed by Kyodo News said passing judgment on their fellow peers in court was stressful, but a large majority still reflected on their experience as being positive. Of the 342 respondents in the survey conducted ahead of the lay ...

Editorials Jan 24, 2019

Reviewing the lay judge trial system

Resolving issues surrounding lay judges hold the key to sustaining the system.

Editorials Nov 24, 2018

Reduce the burden on lay judges

Lay judge trials run too long, and they're getting longer.

Architect of Japan's lay judge system to become chief justice at Supreme Court

National / Crime & Legal Dec 7, 2017

Architect of Japan's lay judge system to become chief justice at Supreme Court

The Cabinet on Friday tapped Supreme Court Justice Naoto Otani, the architect of Japan's lay judge system, to be head of the top court starting next month. Otani, 65, will succeed Itsuro Terada as chief justice after Terada, 69, retires in January. He is known for ...

National / 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. In fiscal 2016 ended in March, 2,324 cases subject to such trials had complete recordings of the interrogations, ...

National / Crime & Legal Sep 4, 2016

In wake of yakuza incident, most courts taking steps to enhance safety of lay judges

Most courts that hold trials under the lay judge system are trying to enhance the safety of the participants after citizen judges in a gangster's trial were approached by people associated with the defendant, Many safety steps have been introduced with the help of court ...

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