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Japan Supreme Court Limits Police GPS Surveillance, Citing Constitution Article 35 /2017/08/japan-supreme-court-limits-police-gps-surveillance-citing-constitution-article-35/
2017/8/16
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On March 15 of this year, the Supreme Court of Japan issued a rare decision that limits the authority of the police to conduct surveillance operations. The case involved the placement of GPS tracking devices on the vehicles of surveillance targets. According to the published Supreme Court opinion, ...............

日本で開かれた心が閉ざされた法廷と戦うとき
2017/7/16
ジャパンタイムズ
On Nov. 28, 2016, the Nagoya High Court overturned the acquittal of Hiroto Fujii, mayor of the Gifu city of Minokamo, sentencing him to 18 months imprisonment with labor, suspended for three years. Elected in 2013 at the age of 28, he remains Japan’s youngest mayor.
沖縄での米軍基地反対デモ参加者の沈黙
2017/1/5
ジャパンタイムズ
When three antiwar activists were detained by the Tokyo police for 75 days in 2004, the Nobel Prize-winning international rights group, Amnesty International, formally declared them to be “prisoners of conscience,” thus tarring Japan’s reputation with a brush that is ordinarily reserved for the world’s most oppressive regimes...............
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