The Diet has passed a revision to the penal code to integrate two categories of confinement--“choeki” and “kinko”--into one called “kokin.” The revision has scrapped the traditional classification ...

To keep up with the times, representatives from institutions in the justice sector are set to form a committee that will review the Revised Penal Code, the country's general criminal code. In a ...

The government is now in the final part of a two-phase revision of the 80-year-old Revised Penal Code (RPC), enacted during the American occupation in 1932. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said the ...