[Receipt and processing status of criminal cases involving foreign 2
suspects] The number of criminal cases that were indicted or had the
indictment suspended, by criminal charge and nationality
[Receipt and processing status of criminal cases involving foreign 4
suspects] The number of criminal cases involving foreign visitors by
jurisdiction between the Supreme Court, High Court and District Court
Public Prosecutors Office and by nationality of the foreigners involved
[Receipt and processing status of criminal cases involving foreign 6
suspects] The number of cases received, processed, and pending (total)
by criminal charge and nationality
[Receipt and processing status of criminal cases involving foreigners] 4
The number of criminal cases received involving foreign visitors by
criminal charge and nationality
[Receipt and processing status of criminal cases by foreigners] The 1
number of criminal cases involving foreign visitors by criminal charge
and nationality (Total number of indicted cases)
Statistics relating to Corrective Measures (Ministry of Justice 2015)66
[Detainees] Nationality of foreign detainees at the end of the year
(Total)
[Detainees] Nationality of foreign detainees at the end of the year
(Foreign visitors & General)
[Detainees] Nationality of foreign detainees at the end of the year by
facility (Total)
[Detainees] Nationality of foreign detainees at the end of the year by
facility (Foreign visitors)
66
1
0
1
0
Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, “Kyousei Toukei 2015 Nen Nenpou
[Statistics relating to Corrective Measures, 2015 Annual Report]” (July 2016), at http://www.estat.go.jp/SG1/estat/List.do?lid=000001155287.
The statistics are based on information from detention centers under the jurisdiction of the Correction
Bureau, Ministry of Justice. Inquiry to the Statistics Office, Judicial System Division, Judicial System
Department, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Justice (29 March 2016). The information is transferred
from the identification book of a detainee that has been made before the detainee comes under the
jurisdiction of the Correction Bureau; the Correction Bureau does not make nationality determinations
on its own. Inquiry to the Correction Bureau, Ministry of Justice (30 March 2016).
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