Ex-bureaucrat Murai gets top security post

Ex-bureaucrat Murai gets top security post

TOKYO, Japan - Jin Murai, the new chairman of the National Public Safety Commission which controls the nation's police force, speaks at a news conference April 26. Murai is a former bureaucrat at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry who also worked at the Defense Agency.

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