Hi Blog. File this article under the “sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander” category. <\/p>\n
Nikkan Gendai reports on Japan grousing about a lack of extradition treaties, creating a situation where foreigners committing crimes in Japan can easily flee abroad and not be sent back to face justice. Then the article concludes that, “Japan is not a place where foreign criminals typically flee in order to escape arrest for crimes they committed elsewhere.”<\/p>\n
Quite. It’s only the Japanese crooks that can flee here and get away with it. The most famous “Japanese” absconder from overseas justice, former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, is a textbook example of how Japan protects its own, even after they turn a country upside down. Note that the GOJ in its favor then cited the lack of an extradition treaty with Peru. Then we get into all the Japanese divorcees of international marriages who abduct children into the safe haven of Japan, even when convicted of crimes overseas, and you can see how widespread the problem has gotten. More on that at The clearest example being the Murray Wood Case: Sorry, Japan, you can’t have it both ways–make it seem as if the kokutai is a victim of rapacious and sneaky foreigners, then allow exactly the same thing to go on for your own repatriating nationals. Maybe this development will force Japan to make its own citizens accountable for crimes overseas as well… Anyway, the article: <\/p>\n Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n ========================================<\/p>\n Lack of extradition agreements prompting more criminals to flee abroad The number of cases involving foreigners who commit crimes in Japan Japanese authorities have advised Interpol that Donizeti is wanted in According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan has concluded The approximately 188,000 Brazilians currently residing in Japan make A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tells Nikkan However, diplomacy has not proved any more effective and currently \u201cThe hijacking (by leftist radicals) of the JAL passenger jet Yodo to Well, remarks Nikkan Gendai tongue in cheek, at least it\u2019s a good ========================== Additional comments from Matt at The Community:<\/p>\n ————————— Two problems:<\/p>\n 1. Last year I had a talk with some middle-aged ladies about 2. It’s a sore spot for Brazilians living in Japan, as they want There is a discussion of this on NBR’s Japan forum<\/a>. If the following <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nikkan Gendai reports that Japan’s lack of extradition treaties is causing problems when foreigners commit crimes in Japan and flee scot free overseas. Then it concludes, “at least it\u2019s a good thing that Japan is not a place where foreign criminals typically flee in order to escape arrest for crimes they committed elsewhere”. Quite. It’s only the Japanese crooks that can flee here and get away with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/japantodaycolumns10-12.html#12<\/a>
\nBlog backlog to several articles and recent updates on Fujimori at
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=120<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.crnjapan.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.crnjapan.com\/people\/wom\/en\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/successstoriesjune2006.html<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/?s=Murray+Wood<\/a><\/p>\n
\nJapan Today, December 31, 2006<\/b>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/jp\/kuchikomi\/446<\/a>
\nCourtesy of Matt at The Community. His comments follow below.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nand flee the country to avoid arrest has been rapidly increasing,
\nreports Nikkan Gendai (Dec 27). The most recent incident involved the
\nmurder of a 41-year-old Brazilian woman and her two sons, ages 10 and
\n15, in Yaizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The suspect in the murders,
\nBrazilian Neves Edilson Donizeti, 43, departed from Narita soon after
\nthe slayings.<\/p>\n
\nconnection with the crimes. Unfortunately, the chance of Donizeti
\nbeing apprehended in Brazil and extradited to Japan is virtually nil.<\/p>\n
\nextradition agreements with just two countries, the United States and
\nSouth Korea. And Donizeti is particularly fortunate in that his own
\ncountry\u2019s laws specifically forbid the extradition of its citizens,
\nexcept in drug-related offenses.<\/p>\n
\nthem the third largest foreign minority after Koreans (529,000) and
\nChinese (253,000).<\/p>\n
\nGendai that extradition is not the sole means of arranging for the
\nreturn of a wanted criminal to Japan. \u201cIt\u2019s also possible to make a
\nrequest via diplomatic channels,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n
\nBrazil alone is said to harbor some 86 felons wanted for crimes in
\nJapan.<\/p>\n
\nNorth Korea in April 1970 is a typical example,\u201d points out policeman
\nturned journalist Ken Kitashiba. \u201cIf the other country doesn\u2019t regard
\nthe act as a crime, it won\u2019t turn them over. The international rules
\nsimply don\u2019t apply. This is the case not only for North Korea, but
\nAfrican and Middle Eastern countries, which take an uncooperative
\nstance toward Japan. There\u2019s nothing the Japanese police can do about
\nit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nthing that Japan is not a place where foreign criminals typically
\nflee in order to escape arrest for crimes they committed elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\nARTICLE ENDS<\/p>\n
\n
\nThere is a lack of extradition treaty between Brazil and Japan.
\nApparently, some people are committing crimes in Japan and escaping
\nto Brazil.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nimmigration increasing in Japan. They all responded with “kowai,
\nkowai” (scary, scary). And when I asked them what was on their minds,
\nthey said that foreigners can commit offenses in Japan then run away
\nto other countries. This was something new so I wasn’t prepared with
\nany kind of come back. Is this issue causing any (probably unfair)
\nproblems with the perception of foreigners in Japan?<\/p>\n
\njustice too. Often they are the ones who have been the recipients of
\nthe crime. I’m not clear on this, but they *might* be the ones who
\nraised this issue.<\/p>\n
\nlink works, it should open an archive page for that forum, with the
\nsearch word, “extradition” already typed in, and the column sorted
\naccording to date. Read the top five or six posts, especially Daniel
\nSturgeon’s:
\nhttp:\/\/www.nbr.org\/foraui\/list.aspx?LID=5&sh=extradition&srt=EmailDate+DESC<\/a>
\n—————————
\nENDS\n<\/p>\n