Overview

• Tokyo’s No. 6 Prosecutorial Review Board ruled that the decision not to indict two former Public Security investigators was unjust.
• The panel found two intentional falsehoods in official documents, including the deletion of unfavorable temperature data from spray-dryer tests.
• The decision urges prosecutors to clarify the case in court, and the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office will now reinvestigate before deciding on charges.
• Okawara Chemical Machinery CEO Masaaki Okawara called for indictments at a Tokyo news conference, warning that further inaction would damage trust in law enforcement.
• Civil rulings have already found parts of the original investigation illegal, while an August police verification report did not address the data-deletion issue.