2011 White Paper on Crime
The Ministry of Justice has uploaded the full text of the 2011 White Paper on Crime in Japanese (sadly, the English versions of the White Papers are limited to those up to 2009). I will post more after...
View Article[Review] Minister of Justice – Toshio Ogawa
Here is a unique idea – let’s review a human being for a change… the Minister of Justice, Mr Toshio Ogawa. There is, of course, a knack to passing judgment on someone else which, coincidentally,...
View Article[Review] Minister of Justice – Sadakazu Tanigaki
Lets be honest – it you have been trying to keep tabs on the Minister of Justice, you (like me) will have experienced a profound and painful episode of whiplash. The year 2012 witnessed the rise (and...
View ArticleOMG – what IS that?
Oops. It seems that Singaporean photographer, Leslie Kee, has just been arrested by Japanese police for violating Japan’s law against obscenity (わいせつ); or more specifically, Article 175 of the Criminal...
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