The National Public Safety Commission, Japan's highest institution on internal security, announced Thursday it will set up a panel to review the nation's police system following a series of high-profile scandals.
The panel, tentatively called the Council on the Reform of Police Systems, will have six members, including former Chief Cabinet Secretary Masaharu Gotoda and Kohei Nakabo, lawyer and former president of the government-run Resolution and Collection Corp., said Kosuke Hori, chairman of the commission and minister of home affairs.
Nakabo was appointed Tuesday by Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi as his special adviser on monetary and environmental issues.