East Asian Security Research Council reports in June issue of Sekai.
Key premiss : recent deployment of PAC3 systems in response to North Korean missile threat (intelligence info about which was supplied to Japanese gov’t in first instance by US Satellite Early Warning Centre) was an act of public misdirection with regard to the true nature [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Law’
June 30, 2009
Patriot Missile Farce
June 10, 2009
First Tokyo Trial by Jury to be murder case; trial starts in August
It has been understood from sources within the trial system that the first criminal trial to feature ordinary citizens taking part in deliberations is expected to open in early August this year; the case is that of a murder in May this year in Tokyo’s Adachi ward. There are currently around 80 cases on trial [...]
June 9, 2009
Atomic Radiation Sickness suit – Tokyo High Court Judgement
The Government moves to abandon appeal
[ report in Asahi Shinbun 9th June 2009 3:01am ]
On 8th June the government began deliberations on the withdrawal of its appeal against a recent ruling by the Tokyo High Court in which 9 out 10 people until now denied legal recognition of atomic radiation sickness were recognized as entitled [...]
July 19, 2008
Osaka High Court Atomic Bomb Compensation Ruling
A number of people seeking government recognition as official victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have had their status recognized by the Osaka High Court in a second ruling after appeal. This is the 10th case the government has lost since May 2006.
May 25, 2008
J-Power Shareholders’ Meeting
The UK investment fund TCI (The Children’s Investment Fund) held a meeting in Tokyo for J-Power shareholders to seek support for TCI proposals with regard to dividend payments and other matters. TCI is now the largest shareholder in major Japanese electricity producer J-Power and are seeking to gain support from other investors before the general [...]
May 25, 2008
Iraq Special Measures Law extension ‘difficult’
Yamasaki Taku, chairman of the LDP’s Diplomatic Research Committee, remarked in a debate in Tokyo on 25th May [2008] that “people are saying that extending the Iraq Special Measures Law will be difficult, and I agree with them completely”. The Iraq Special Measures Law, originally passed under PM Koizumi, is the legal basis for Japan [...]
March 27, 2008
SDF Air Force Lieutenant to be Charged for Information Leak
The Asahi Shinbun reports today that a grade 1 Lieutenant at the Defence Ministry’s Information HQ is to be charged on suspicion of breaking the SDF Law (Disclosure of Defence Secrets) over an article published in the Yomiuri Newspaper in 2005 about a Chinese submarine drifting powerless in the South China sea after an accident.
March 12, 2008
‘Civic Legislative Committee on Age of Majority’ begins Deliberations
The Civic Legislative Committee on the Age of Majority, an advisory committee to Justice Minister Hatoyama began deliberations on 11th March on a proposal to lower the age of majority in Japan from 20 to 18 years old. Professor Kaoru Kamata of the prestigious Waseda University has been elected as Chairman of the committee. Members [...]
March 7, 2008
Airport Maintenance Law – Restrictions on Foreign Investment to be Lifted
Proposed revisions to the Airport Maintenance Law were decided by the Fukuda Cabinet on 7th March, reports the Asahi Shinbun today.
March 4, 2008
Niigata Lawyers Association Opposition to Jury System
The Niigata Lawyers’ Association has decided to proceed with the aim of canvassing support in government for the submission of a legislative bill to the Diet proposing that the introduction of a Jury system in Japan (legislated to start by May 2009) be delayed, reports the Asahi Shinbun today.
