This document contains the following section: Penal Code Offenses; Juvenile Delinquency and Victimization; Economic Related Offenses; Cybercrime Clearances and Complaints; Overview of Organized Crime; Countermeasures against Boryokudan Gangs; Drug and Firearm Control; Transnational Crime; Fatal Traffic Accidents and Road Traffic Law Violations; Motorcycle Gangs; Crime Victim Payment System; and Statistics.
This is a convenient source for statistical information concerning Japan, covering demographic, economic, social and cultural areas. Information is presented in charts and graphs.
Japan
Information
Network Statistics
jin.jcic.or.jp/
Presents data on number of felonies, larcenies, white-collar and moral offenses from 1984 on; number of police officers and stations and kobans; traffic accidents; arrests of gang members; and drug abuse violations.
Japan
Statistical
Yearbook
www.stat.go.jp/english/data/nenkan/index.htm
This website offers statistical
compendiums, survey results and economic and financial data on Japan.
It also includes a section on justice and the police, with detailed
statistics on juvenile cases, corrections, justice administration, etc.
Overview
of Japanese Police
www.npa.go.jp/english/index.htm
Presents an overview of the Japanese police organization, including various special units.
White
Paper on Crime
www.moj.go.jp/HOUSO/hakusho2.html
In Japanese
White Papers on Crime
Presents an overview of crime trends, treatment of offenders, trends in juvenile delinquency and treatment of juvenile offenders, specific offenses and offenders, victims of crime and state support, situation of and measures against economic offenses, trends in offenses of by organized crime groups and treatment of organized crime group members, and appendices. In English. (Website)
World
Factbook of
Criminal Justice Systems, Japan
bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/ascii/WFBCJJAP.TXT
Provides a narrative description
of the
criminal justice system of Japan. Forty-two other country descriptions
are written with a common template so that comparisons of similar
functions in different countries can be made easily.
Annual Reports to Congress on Human Rights Practices - Japan
These reports, produced by the U.S. Department of State, to the U.S. Congress. The law provides that the Secretary of State shall transmit a "full and complete report regarding the status of internationally recognized human rights, within the meaning of subsection (A) in countries that receive assistance under this part, and (B) in all other foreign countries which are members of the United Nations and which are not otherwise the subject of a human rights report under this Act." Reports on several countries are included that do not fall into the categories established by these statutes and that thus are not covered by the congressional requirement. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Univeral Declaration of Human Rights. (website).
Annual Reports to Congress on International Religious Freedom - Japan
These reports, produced by the U.S. Department of State, describe the status of religious freedom in Japan, government policies violating religious belief and practices of groups, religious denominations, and individuals, and U.S. policies to promote religious freedom around the world. It is submitted in compliance with the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
Current
Juvenile
Police Policy in Japan
www.npa.go.jp/english/seisaku3/20060424.pdf
This site presents a special issue of the
Journal of Police Science entitled "Current Juvenile Police in
Japan." It contains the following articles: Postwar Fourth Wave
of Juvenile Delinquency and Tasks of Juvenile Police; Establishment of
Rule of Juvenile Police Activity and Future Task; Activities by
Juvenile Support Centers for Protection Juveniles; and Clinical
Psychology-Based Community Support for Delinquency: Cooperation
Strategy for Relevant Organizations.
Situation of Juvenile Delinquency in Japan in 2006
www.npa.go.jp/english/syonen1/20070312.pdf
Presents situation of Japanese juvenile delinquency in 2006.
Historical Statistics of Japan - Justice and Peace
www.stat.go.jp/english/data/chouki/28.htm
This site provides multiple links to documents that detail historical (early 20th century to 2004) data on the following areas: police and prosecution, justice, and corrections and rehabilitation.
Statistical Yearbook
www.stat.go.jp/english/data/chouki/28.htm
This site provides multiple links to documents that detail historical (early 20th century to 2004) data on the following areas: police and prosecution, justice, and corrections and rehabilitation.