We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that John W. has
exploded. Flight director confirms that:

>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.

They're debating removing the limitation for crimes such as murder anyhow, if I
remember correctly.


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