On Jul 27, 5:58 pm, Wasabi <blue.mounta...@org.invalid> wrote:
> I was recently watching the TV series Jikou Keisatsu (statute of
> limitations police), the premise of which is that in Japan a crime cannot
> be prosecuted once 15 years have elapsed. Is this really the case, even for
> serious crimes like murder? If so it seems a surprising regulation, in most
> countries such time limits normally only affect civil cases like debt etc
> and not serious crimes. Anyway I enjoyed the series a lot, although I felt
> it became a bit silly towards the end. It reminded me somewhat of the UK
> series "Jonathon Creek" which also stars a curly-haired sleuth with a
> female sidekick.

Maybe Mike Cash can chime in, if he's still lurking about; for some
reason he always knew this stuff. Once there was a post saying that,
for murder, the body had to be complete (to a certain percentage, I'd
guess) for the statute of limitations to run out, and, IIRC, a man
came out x-years after the murder and said he did the crime, not
realizing that the case was still open because the body wasn't
completely found. So there are ways around the limitations.

John W.