(Mainichi Japan) January 21, 201
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has expressed reservations over a proposed bill allowing the recording and videotaping of police and prosecutor questioning sessions.
The move comes amid the ongoing investigation into a fund-raising scandal involving Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Secretary-General Ichiro Ozawa.
"The submission of the bill could be deemed as criticism of public prosecutors," Hatoyama claimed at his office on Wednesday. However, many in the DPJ are in favor of prioritizing the amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law following the land deal scandal, in which three aides to Ozawa have been arrested.
"There are opinions that the bill should be submitted (to the current Diet session). We need to handle the matter properly based on sober judgment," said Azuma Koshiishi, head of the DPJ caucus of the House of Councillors, at its general meeting on Wednesday. Some DPJ members are even calling for a bill sponsored by legislators.
The DPJ pledged in its manifesto for last summer's House of Representatives election to work toward allowing the audio and visual recording of questioning, and the bill is "not something that has popped up on the heels of the (land deal) incident," said Kenji Hirata, head of the Diet Affairs Committee for DPJ's Upper House caucus. DPJ Lower House member Hiroshi Kawauchi has also campaigned among party legislators to support the bill.
However, concerns over the ill-timed submission of the bill are strong among the ruling coalition parties. "It could lead to misunderstanding to take up the issue of recording at a time like this," said Mikio Shimoji, head of the Policy Research Council of the People's New Party, DPJ's junior coalition partner.
Meanwhile, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said on Wednesday that "the bill is not among those to be submitted by the government to the current Diet session."
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