Nikkei Shimbun: Have Prosecutors Changed?

USALI Affiliated Scholar Bruce Aronson was interviewed by the Nikkei Shimbun entitled, “Have Prosecutors Changed?” on December 31, 2020. The article is available here (Japanese language only): https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXKZO67792050Y0A221C2TCS000/

The piece explores criminal justice reform on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of a famous case involving Atsuko Muraki, then a department head at Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. When the prosecutors could not produce evidence to back corruption charges against her, they manufactured evidence.