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Reference | EXPLAINER Jul 2, 2018

Japan's driving schools, squeezed by demographic change, target foreign residents to stay afloat

by Magdalena Osumi

According to the National Police Agency's latest statistics, as many as 82.26 million people held driver's licenses in Japan in 2017. Of those drivers, 18.18 million — or 22.1 percent — were 65 or older. With well-developed public transport networks in urban areas and a ...

Reference | EXPLAINER Jun 18, 2018

Japan's criminal justice reforms aim to enhance transparency of interrogations — are they working?

by Sakura Murakami

The National Police Agency said in early June that interrogations of crime suspects were fully recorded in 81.9 percent of all the 3,197 cases tried by lay judges in fiscal 2017, up from 72.8 percent the year before. The data were released ahead of June ...