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Police apologize at grave of Japanese businessman who was wrongfully arrested and died after lengthy detention

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Last updated: August 25, 2025 8:21 pm
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Japan’s prime legislation enforcement officers apologized to the household of a businessman who was wrongfully arrested and died after a months-long detention.

Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to equipment agency Ohkawara Kakohki, was certainly one of three firm executives illegally held in pretrial detention for months on costs that have been later dropped.

Human rights campaigners have lengthy demanded an finish to Japan’s “hostage justice” follow, the place investigators use prolonged pretrial detentions to coerce confessions.

Senior officers from the Tokyo police, the highest public prosecutor’s division and the Tokyo prosecutor’s workplace visited Aishima’s household and grave on Monday. The officers knelt and prayed in entrance of the grave, the Japan Instances reported.

Tetsuro Kamata from Japan’s Nationwide Police Company (third L) and two different officers from the prosecutor’s workplace apologize in entrance of the grave of Shizuo Aishima, who was falsely accused of unauthorized export of delicate tools and died after extended detention, in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025.

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“We sincerely apologize for conducting the unlawful investigation and arrest,” Tetsuro Kamata, deputy superintendent-general of Tokyo Metropolitan Police, stated throughout a televised assembly with the household.

Aishima’s spouse stated: “I settle for the apology however I will not be capable to forgive.”

The three males have been detained and indicted in March 2020 on costs they illegally exported spray dryers able to producing organic weapons — exports they argued have been authorized.

Aishima was identified with progressive most cancers in October 2020, however prosecutors stored him detained, arguing that he might destroy proof if launched. He was admitted to a hospital a month later.

His two colleagues have been launched in February 2021 provided that they’d not meet with Aishima, stopping them from seeing him earlier than he died that very same month.

Prosecutors later dropped the costs, prompting Aishima’s household and colleagues to sue authorities.

The Tokyo police and Tokyo prosecutors apologized on to the corporate and others in June, the Japan Instances reported. In its report on the investigation, police stated that “it lacked basic investigative ideas as a corporation, and that the chain of command was dysfunctional,” the outlet reported.

The Tokyo Excessive Court docket discovered that the investigation, arrests and indictment have been unlawful and never supported by proof.

The household’s lawyer Tsuyoshi Takada informed a press convention that the lads’s detention — approved a number of instances in court docket — “was not the error of a single choose.”

“We have to change the mistaken attitudes of all judges,” he stated. “The court docket should be taught from this and take into consideration what they’ll achieve this that there will not be extra victims of ‘hostage justice’ sooner or later.”

Aishima’s eldest son stated he had combined emotions concerning the apologies and requested a brand new investigation of the case, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported.

“I take them as a step ahead, as they acknowledged the unlawfulness of the arrest, detention requests and prosecution,” he stated. “I can not settle for the findings of your critiques and the disciplinary actions taken.”

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