TOKYO, May 25 (Xinhua) — The Supreme Court of Japan on Thursday launched a report on a scandal wherein a collection of high-profile trial data had been discarded and apologized for the loss.
Trial data for many of 90 instances investigated have been discarded with out consideration for everlasting preservation, in accordance with the report, together with these of the 1997 serial assaults on youngsters in Japan’s western metropolis of Kobe.
In the 1997 serial homicide, a 14-year-old boy was arrested and despatched to a medical juvenile reformatory for killing two youngsters and injuring three others.
The high court docket admitted that the scandal resulted from its insufficient dealing with, and apologized for its inadequate directions to courts throughout the nation on document preservation.
“We are deeply sorry for the loss of many records that should have been handed down to future generations, and we apologize to the people including those related to the affected cases,” Shinya Onodera, director of the highest court docket’s basic affairs bureau, was quoted by Jiji Press as saying at a press convention.
Thursday’s report was drafted by a bunch of specialists who investigated roughly 100 important social instances involving juveniles and civil trials to find out the explanations behind the disposal of their data.
The probe was initiated final 12 months by the highest court docket in response to the invention that various case data had gone lacking in courts all through Japan.