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Japanese prosecutors made their first arrest Sunday in connection with a major political slush fund scandal that has rocked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's already unpopular government. Tokyo ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's ruling party faced mounting scrutiny on Thursday amid reports that lawmakers will be investigated over fundraising - a scandal that threatens to further dent Prime ...
The Public Prosecutors Office (検察庁, Kensatsu-chō) [3] is the agency for conducting prosecution in Japan. It is an extraordinary organ (特別の機関, Tokubetsu no Kikan) under the Ministry of Justice (法務省, Hōmu-shō). [4]
TOKYO (Reuters) -A lawmaker from Japan's ruling party was arrested on Sunday for suspected fundraising violations, the first arrest in a scandal that has battered support for Prime Minister Fumio ...
In late January 2020, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe decided to extend Kurokawa's term to August 2020. [3] The government argued that the extension was legal under Japan's National Public Service Act, while the opposition argued that this was inconsistent with past interpretation of the law, and that the extension was a political move meant to allow Kurokawa to replace Japan's Prosecutor-General ...
On January 23, the Gifu District Public Prosecutors Office referred Watanabe to the Gifu Family Court on charges of robbery-homicide and attempted robbery-homicide; [19] [20] on February 19, the Gifu Family Court (Judge Saori Hamaguchi) noted that "this is a brutal crime with no regard to the seriousness of human life and the social impact is ...
Tokyo prosecutors said Thursday they have arrested the former vice foreign minister of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet on suspicion of accepting more than 61 million yen ($414,000) in ...
Tokyo Detention House. Within the criminal justice system of Japan, there exist three basic features that characterize its operations.First, the institutions—police, government prosecutors' offices, courts, and correctional organs—maintain close and cooperative relations with each other, consulting frequently on how best to accomplish the shared goals of limiting and controlling crime.