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"Brilliantly combines scholarly reflections on Japan's Prosecution Review Commission with practical suggestions for making prosecution more democratic." - Sator

This book explains Japan’s unique Prosecution Review Commission (PRC) which is composed of eleven lay people selected randomly from voter registration lists.

The major achievements of Japanese criminal justice are thus inextricably intertwined with its most notable defects, and efforts to fix the defects threaten to

In the Japanese criminal system, the prosecutor is the most important figure. Based on extensive fieldwork inside a large prosecutor's office and on extensive s

With effective solutions in both criminal and civil disputes at a premium, reformers have advanced varied forms of jury systems as a means of fostering positive