Citizens Group Accuses The Prosecutors Over The Rikuzankai Case
** ※- Citizens Group Accuses The Prosecutors Over The Rikuzankai Case Ryusaku Tanaka’s Journal, January 12th of 2012 On January 12th, a citizens group known as the Citizens Group RaisingVoices To Defend The Constitution (representative: Nobuyo Yagi),consisting of lawyers, writers and scholars, brought charges againstthe Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office Special InvestigationDivision to the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office for misguiding theProsecution Inquest Committee. The charges are as follows:(1). Construction company officials testified to the prosecutors thatthey did not make any illegal donations to Congressman Ichiro Ozawa,indicating his possible innocence. However, the prosecutors did notsubmit written statements of these hearings to the Prosecution InquestCommittee although they had to. This act is considered a fraudulentobstruction of business(Penal Code 233).(2). The written statement taken from Congressman Tomohiro Ishikawa, aformer secretary of Mr. Ozawa, states that after hearing theprosecuter preach on how lying on the behalf of a superior isyakuza-like and a betrayal to the supporters, Mr. Ishikawa finallyadmitted falsifying political fund reports under Mr. Ozawa’s approval.However, it turned out that this written statement was fabricated byProsecutor Masahiro Tashiro, after Mr. Ishikawa’s secret recording ofhis conversation with Mr. Tashiro was presented at the court. Mr.Tashiro’s act is against Penal Code 156 and 158. Deliberately or not, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors OfficeSpecial Investigation Division did not submit written statementsindicating Mr. Ozawa’s possible innocence to the Prosecution InquestCommittee. Instead, they submitted the aforementioned fabricatedstatement written by Mr. Tashiro, and it is believed that, as a result, Mr. Ozawa wasindicted by the Prosecution Inquest Committee. Moreover, there is a suggestion that the members of the ProsecutionInquest Committee were selected using an intentionally glitched votingmachine which is designed only to select socially inexperienced youngpeople. What’s even more surprising is that the Prosecution InquestCommittee’s hired lawyer, in the position of giving advices to thecommittee members on whether to indict or not, was replaced by anotherlawyer who is said to be affiliated with opponent politicians of Mr.Ozawa. The Citizens Group Raising Voices To Defend The Constitution hasconducted a tremendous amount of research, proving how desperately thepeople behind the Prosecution Inquest Committee were trying to indict Mr. Ozawa. One of the prosecutors evensaid that even if the prosecutors can’t indict Mr.Ozawa, theProsecution Inquest Committee surely will. It seems that the judicial and the administrative powers these daysdon’t even hesitate to bend rules and laws if that’s what it takes toget rid of political figures they target. Well, let’s see if the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office has thecourage to press charges against it’s subsidiary organization. NobuyoYagi, the representative of the Citizens Group Raising Voices ToDefend The Constitution, stated that she hopes that the ProsecutorsOffice is functional enough to clean up it’s own act, and live underrules and laws.*-*