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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.
The penal system of Japan (including prisons) is part of the criminal justice system of Japan. It is intended to resocialize , reform , rehabilitate and punish offenders. The penal system is operated by the Correction Bureau of the Ministry of Justice .
The Penal Code (刑法 Keihō) of Japan was passed in 1907 as Law No. 45. It is one of six Codes that form the foundation of modern Japanese law.The penal code is also called “ordinary criminal law” or “general criminal law” as it relates to general crimes.
In the Empire of Japan, the criminal investigation was presided over by prosecutors, like the ministère public does in French law. With the 1947 Police Law ( 警察法 [ ja ] ) and the 1948 Code of Criminal Procedure ( 刑事訴訟法 [ ja ] ), the responsibility of investigation has been defined to be uniquely assigned to police officers.
In 1872, Japan introduced a modern prosecution system following the French system. [6] The 1880 Act provided that public prosecutors had exclusive power of prosecution and it was enforced in 1882. [6] However, the then system adopted preliminary hearings and collection of evidence was placed on pretrial judges. [6]
2nd Building of the Central Common Government Office, the building which houses the agency. The National Police Agency (Japanese: 警察庁, Hepburn: Keisatsu-chō) is the central coordinating law enforcement agency of the Japanese police system.
Hiroshi Itakura, a criminal law scholar at Nihon University, said that this decision could be a new criterion for capital punishment under the lay judge system. [40] However, one of the two men sentenced to death in the Isogai case had his sentence reduced to life imprisonment on appeal, and the Supreme Court refused to raise the punishment to ...
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