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CRIMINAL

EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2014
Transparency in interrogations
A special panel of the Legislative Council proposes phasing in the process of electronically recording the full interrogation of a criminal suspect by an investigator. Will prosecutors go along?
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Jan 4, 2014
Here's eyeing Japan 2014 — warts an' all
"To know the future, look at the past," is a familiar Buddhist aphorism. However, it's also said that a prophet isn't honored in his hometown — which is why I live in Tokyo. As we ride into the Year of the Horse, I thought I'd canter awhile through times to come and report back on what I found. My...
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 14, 2013
Papers that pushed for Pacific War revisited
Papers from the long-locked safe of the late Lt. Gen. Teiichi Suzuki, an Imperial Japanese Army wartime Cabinet minister, reveal his faulted argument that Japan had the wherewithal to wage war against the Allies.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2013
Is U.S. still the land of the free?
It is not the United Stasi of America. Nevertheless, one still ought to ask how far one can trust the security and law-enforcement complexes to police themselves.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 31, 2013
MRI faces criminal complaint over losses
Japanese clients of MRI International Inc., a U.S. investment company suspected of mismanaging assets, filed a complaint Thursday with Tokyo prosecutors and police alleging fraud.
EDITORIALS
Mar 14, 2013
A troubling win in Kenya
On one hand, Kenya's presidential election could be viewed as a triumph of democracy — on the other, a nationalistic snub of the global community.
EDITORIALS
Feb 22, 2013
Reform panel pulls its punches
It is regrettable that a Legislative Council advisory panel pulled its punches in recommending that a suspect's interrogation be electronically recorded.

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