Book on juvenile crime stirs controversy

By Keiji Hirano

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GrouchyGaijin at 08:29 AM JST - 25th May

And Japan might be forced to admit that it has a problem, instead of sweeping it under the tatami, like it does everything else. Must be kinda full under that mat by now.
netrek at 10:53 AM JST - 26th May

"the privacy of delinquents and their families"

How about the privacy and rights of their innocent VICTIMS!
Blue_Tiger at 07:54 AM JST - 30th May

Add in the multiple murder-and-dismemberment cases that has also come of age lately, and Japan has a pretty rotten bag of tricks to try to hide. No wonder a book like this causes "controversy" here in Japan....
GW at 09:31 AM JST - 30th May

grouchy, Jpn just keeps making those mats, they sure need a lot of`em thesedays!

These "" laws "" that Jpn uses are always incredibly vague so that the system can do what it like, make it up however they wish. From the info available it seems the author didnt break the law, but witness all the talking heads in the article bending the "law" this way & that its pretty damn scary the J-justice system, its basically an empty book for the most part it how its applied