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		Many asylum-seekers in Japan have had their requests for asylum rejected with no or inadequate consideration of the risks they face on deportation.
		Minors being held in immigration detention centres in Japan are particularly vulnerable to human rights violations.
		Nihat arrived in Japan on 25 July 2006 and applied for refugee status on 26 July 2006.
	www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=ENGASA220022007 (845 words)

	Justice Minister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A justice minister is a ministerial position in the governments of some countries, with general responsibility for policing and the maintenance of public order.
		The minister of justice may also be responsible for the justice system, and in some countries has responsibility for general elections.
		In some countries, the interior minister has the responsibility for policing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minister_of_Justice (110 words)

	Japan Policy & Politics: Justice minister urged to quit for 'directing inquiry'
		Justice Minister Shozaburo Nakamura was urged to resign Monday by a member of the opposition over allegations he instructed ministry officials to investigate a case concerning an Okinawa hotel the minister effectively owns.
		Giichi Tsunoda, a House of Councillors member from the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), demanded Nakamura's resignation after Kunihiro Matsuo, director general of the ministry's criminal affairs bureau, testified in Diet that the minister had shown him pictures related to the case in order to explain it.
		The Public Prosecutors Office Law gives the justice minister general directional authority over prosecutors, but his rights are restricted in dealing with individual cases as he can instruct only the public prosecutor general.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_1999_March_1/ai_54070124 (451 words)

	UofT G8 Information Centre: Analytical Studies. Genoa 2001. Japan.
		Japan announced its expectation that official development assistance (ODA) may be one of the key topics to be discussed at the Genoa Summit, in light of its failing domestic economy and increasing national debt.
		Japan seeks the cooperation of the G8 in linking information technology to promote strategic investments in research and development in science and technology - areas that form the foundation of industrial competitiveness, thus ensuring a high-quality standard of living.
		Japan feels that the multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) on the issues of ozone layer depletion, climate change, desertification, and the conservation of biological diversity need to be managed more effectively and efficiently.
	www.g7.utoronto.ca /evaluations/2001genoa/objectives/japan.html (1938 words)

	1987 Agreement on Foreign Lawyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Entry into Japan of a foreign law trainee with a qualification as a foreign lawyer whom a gaikokuho-jimu-bengoshi employs will be subject to normal immigration control.
		The following are the views of the Government of Japan regarding the handling of the experience of a lawyer of an open state as mentioned in paragraph 3 (3) of Attachment 1.
		Experience in Japan of the so-called "trainees" and "clerks" or U.S.-licensed attorneys working for corporations or organizations in Japan cannot be counted toward the five-year experience requirement.
	www.mac.doc.gov /japan/source/menu/miscellaneous/ta870227.html (2013 words)

	Print Article: Japan questions gallows secrecy
		Hamada and Haruta, both convicted murderers, were among the 50 prisoners on death row in Japan who had had their sentences confirmed, and were waiting for the noose.
		Now, in prisons either side of Japan, the two men were about to become the latest statistics in the country's secretive and often inhumane capital punishment program.
		Japan is one of the few developed countries that imposes the death penalty.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/11/29/1038386307629.html (640 words)

	Migration News
		Japan is aging, but Tara Kono, Japan's vice justice minister, said in June 2006 that foreigners should remain less than three percent of the population (they are now about 1.6 percent of Japanese residents).
		Japan in 2006 began to recover from 15 years of economic stagnation amidst rising inequality.
		Japan was a highly stratified society before World War II, but after the war became an egalitarian society in which large companies offered lifetime employment and promoted employees according to seniority.
	migration.ucdavis.edu /mn/more.php?id=3212_0_3_0 (363 words)

	Constitution of Japan - Wikisource
		The Prime Minister and other Ministers of State may, at any time, appear in either House for the purpose of speaking on bills, regardless of whether they are members of the House or not.
		The Ministers of State, during their tenure of office, shall not be subject to legal action without the consent of the Prime Minister.
		The fundamental human rights by this Constitution guaranteed to the people of Japan are fruits of the age-old struggle of man to be free; they have survived the many exacting tests for durability and are conferred upon this and future generations in trust, to be held for all time inviolate.
	wikisource.org /wiki/The_Constitution_of_Japan_1946 (4221 words)

	Japan: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns
		Japan: Waiting for justice for over 60 years: AI expresses solidarity to "comfort women" and their supporters on occasion of 10 August 2005 "Wednesday Demonstration"
		Japan: Now is the time to show leadership on human rights
		Japan: Open letter to the Minister of Justice, Komura Masahiko
	amnestyusa.org /countries/japan/document.do?... (98 words)

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		Procedure in criminal prosecutions is uniform throughout Japan, and based primarily on the 1948 Code of Criminal Procedure and the 1949 Rules of Criminal Procedure under the Constitutional Law, reflecting Anglo-American legal concepts in contexts important to the protection of human rights.
		The hierarchy of the court structure in Japan places the Supreme Court at the highest level, under which High courts and District courts are located in their own jurisdictions.
		In principle, treatment in Japan is based on rehabilitation of offenders, with the objective of individualized treatment of offenders to correct their criminal inclination and secure their reintegration into the community where they will live.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /bjs/pub/ascii/wfbcjjap.txt (4651 words)

	JAPAN SUSPENDS DEATH PENALTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Japan's new justice minister says he will suspend the death penalty, a move that would leave the United States as the
		The justice minister must sign off on hangings, but the ministry by practice does not identify whom it has executed.
		Japan suspended the death penalty from November 1989 to March 1993 when justice ministers opposed to the capital
	www.patrickcrusade.org /JAPAN_SUSPENDS_DP.html (336 words)

	Justice Minister Cotler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Or is this Justice Minister setting up a double standard for the Liberal Government, using their laws and Legislation to terrorize people.
		What the Justice Minister is not getting is he has hate groups in the Liberal government, and many others working outside that are working hand in hand that promoting hate on the male gender, and male children and even provide government hate reports and hit lists on it own citizen's right here in Canada.
		Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said that he will not revive a Chretien-era bill that died when Parliament adjourned in November, and that any changes to divorce laws could be years away.
	www.fathers.ca /justice_minister_cotler1.htm (3445 words)

	The Open Letter by the Minister of Justice of Belarus
		The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus does not have as far-reaching powers as the US Department of Justice, which performs, among others, the functions of the Office of Public Prosecutor and supervises prisons and criminal investigations (FBI).
		With the consent of the House of Representatives, he appoints the Prime Minister of the country, appoints and dismisses ministers, makes decisions on citizenship, pardons citizens, signs laws and is the Commander-in-Chief of the nation’s Armed Forces.
		Under consideration are the issues of the placement of penitentiary system under the authority of the Ministry of Justice, of the creation of a single investigating agency in the country, and of the improvement in the activities of the authorized bodies for judges’ selection.
	www.belarusembassy.org /political/open_letter_justice.htm (2953 words)

	Japan Policy & Politics: Yasuoka assumes 1st cabinet post as justice minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		New Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka has devoted his 27-year political career primarily to financial, judicial and educational reforms.
		A native of Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, he was a close ally of former LDP Vice President Susumu Nikaido, also from Kagoshima Prefecture, who died in February.
		After former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita formed his own group within the Tanaka faction in a revolt against the faction boss in 1985, Yasuoka joined forces with Nikaido to compete with Takeshita within the faction.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2000_July_10/ai_63276294 (322 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was minister for science and technology in 2001-2002, head of the economic planning agency in 1997-1998 and a vice finance minister in 1990.
		Aso is a grandson of the late Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, and the son-in-law of former premier Zenko Suzuki.
		Minister of internal affairs and communications and minister of state for privatization of the postal services.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=alm18PyVzZ_A&refer=japan (914 words)

	Justice minister in death penalty retreat \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Japan's new justice minister was forced into an embarrassing retreat yesterday, less than 24 hours after he said he would refuse to sign execution orders because he opposes the death penalty.
		Japan implemented an unofficial moratorium on executions between November 1989 and March 1993 because anti-hanging justice ministers refused to sign execution orders.
		The Japan Federation of Bar Associations has urged the government to suspend executions and abolitionist MPs plan to submit a bill that would replace the death sentence with life in prison.
	www.guardian.co.uk /japan/story/0,7369,1606474,00.html?gusrc=rss (553 words)

	Japanese Law
		Japan's Government is a parliamentary democracy, with a House of Representatives and a House of Councillors.
		Executive power is vested in a cabinet composed of a prime minister and ministers of state, all of whom must be civilians.
		Japan's judicial system, drawn from customary law, civil law, and Anglo-American common law, consists of several levels of courts, with the Supreme Court as the final judicial authority.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/japan.htm (369 words)

	Todsstrafe / Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Newly appointed Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura has retracted his controversial remarks that he would refuse to sign orders to execute prisoners on death row.
		From November 1989 to March 1993, no inmates on death row were executed because the justice ministers at the time refused to sign execution orders.
		justice ministers opposed to the capital punishment refused to agree to
	www.initiative-gegen-die-todesstrafe.de /japan01105.htm (461 words)

	BBC News \| Asia-Pacific \| Justice minister 'terminated'
		Japan's justice minister has resigned after allowing tough guy actor Arnold Schwarzenegger into the country without a passport.
		The minister is also said to have been involved in a property scandal.
		The new Justice Minister, Takao Jinnouchi, was a senior member of Japan's upper House of Councillors.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/292503.stm (401 words)

	Japan hangs onto death penalty
		The justice minister does not disclose the names of those executed until afterwards, and details of the execution remain state secrets.
		In a statement afterwards, Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said: "It is the role of the administration to deliver [punishments] in line with court judgments, and in the capacity of the justice minister, I made the decision [to execute them].
		Emma Bonino, former Italian parliamentarian and a campaigner against capital punishment, also urged Japan to reconsider its use of the death penalty when she was in Tokyo last week.
	www.atimes.com /japan-econ/DA30Dh01.html (931 words)

	Embassy of Japan
		In principle, foreigners wishing to enter Japan (with the exception of shipping and airline crews) are required to apply at an overseas Japanese diplomatic establishment (embassy or consulate) for a visa to be stamped in or attached to their passport valid for travel to Japan.
		Under Japan's Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (hereafter referred to as the Immigration Control Act), it is stipulated that any foreigner wishing to enter or land in Japan must possess a valid passport and a visa obtained from an embassy or consulate.
		An application is usually made by a proxy in Japan at the nearest regional immigration authority to the proxy's place of residence in Japan.
	www.us.emb-japan.go.jp /english/html/travel_and_visa/visa/faq.htm (3536 words)

	JAPAN FOREIGN LAWYERS AGREEMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Government of Japan is making all possible efforts so that the Law will come into force as from April 1, 1987.
		Entry into Japan of a foreign law trainee without a qualification as a foreign lawyer whom a gaikokuho jimu-bengoshi employs will be subject to normal immigration control.
		The efforts of the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs were especially crucial during the past year and a half of intensive consultations following your Government's announcement in the July 1985 Action Program to address this issue.
	www.mac.doc.gov /tcc/data/commerce_html/tcc_documents/Japan_Foreign/Japan_Foreign.html (1982 words)

	Japan passes fingerprinting law
		Japan's parliament has approved a controversial law to fingerprint and photograph foreign visitors in an effort to fight terrorism.
		Japan's justice minister acknowledged human rights concerns, but said fighting terrorism was more important.
		Japan is worried it could be a target for terrorism due to its close links with the US and its despatch of troops to Iraq.
	prisonplanet.com /articles/may2006/180506Japan.htm (125 words)

	Open Letter to the Minister of Justice of Japan, the Hon. Nagase Jinen - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These executions in Japan, after a 15 month hiatus, will send a discouraging signal to nations in the Asia-Pacific region at a time when others – South Korea and Taiwan for example – are considering the abolition of the death penalty.
		This is not the first time a Minister of Justice in Japan has refused to sanction hangings.
		Japan seeks to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council; steps towards abolition of death penalty would demonstrate that Japan is progressing towards the full protection of human rights and showing strong leadership on this important matter.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGASA220012007?open&of=ENG-392 (879 words)

	Japan
		In November, the former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, left Japan for Chile where he was arrested at the request of the Peruvian authorities, pending an extradition request.
		Japan: Waiting for justice for over 60 years: AI expresses solidarity to "comfort women" and their supporters on occasion of 10 August 2005 "Wednesday Demonstration"
		Japan: Amnesty International's appeal to members of parliament to support for Japan's accession to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 2007
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/japan/index.do (366 words)

	Japan archive at Mission & Justice
		Japan’s Foreign Minister has reassured his South Korean counterpart that Tokyo stands by a 1993 apology over sexual slavery in its World War II military brothels, potentially defusing an escalating political row.
		Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, under fire abroad for denying government involvement in forcing women to serve as wartime sex slaves, said on Monday he was “apologising here and now as the prime minister”.
		A diplomatic furore over Japan’s wartime brothels is unlikely to fade after Tokyo said a 14-year-old study had found no evidence the government or military officials had kidnapped women to act as prostitutes.
	www.missionandjustice.org /?cat=40 (801 words)

	Migration Information Source - Japanese Immigration Policy: Responding to Conflicting Pressures
		The Korean population in Japan increased further as conscripted laborers were brought over during the last years of the colonial empire, and reached approximately two million in 1945.
		Japan ratified the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1981.
		Japan continues to be relatively closed to asylum seekers.
	www.migrationinformation.org /Profiles/display.cfm?ID=487 (2564 words)

	Japan - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is bound by the Sea of Japan, the Korea Strait and the East China Sea to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east and the La Perouse Strait to the north.
		In 1973 Japan experienced an oil crisis which exposed the country's deficiency of local energy supplies, however, by the second oil crisis of 1979 Japan was a world leader in energy saving technology.
		In Aug. 1991 Finance Minister Ryutaro Hahimoto's senior secretary was implicated in an illegal loan transaction that put in doubt his most likely to status of acceding to the LDP Presidency.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/japan.htm (1995 words)

	Japan justice minister agrees to consider sending Fischer to Iceland
		TOKYO : Japanese Justice Minister Chieko Nohno agreed to consider fugitive US chess legend Bobby Fischer's plea to go to Iceland to avoid deportation and potential jail in the United States.
		Fischer, 61, has been detained in Japan since July when he tried to fly out of the country on his revoked US passport.
		In detention he became engaged to Miyoko Watai, a Japanese heading the Japan Chess Association, although Japanese authorities are still studying their marriage application.
	www.bobby-fischer.net /Japan_justice_minister_agrees_to_consider_sending_Fischer_to_Iceland.htm (342 words)

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