Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

YOKOHAMA, Japan, Aug. 26 Kyodo - Takashi Koike, head of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office's public security bureau, Hiroshi Ichikawa, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, and Tetsuro Kamata, deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, bow in apology to the bereaved family of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's lawyer. Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died next year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

(from L) Takashi Koike, head of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office's public security bureau, Hiroshi Ichikawa, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, and Tetsuro Kamata (C), deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, bow in apology to the bereaved family of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's lawyer. Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died next year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo)

Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

(from L) Takashi Koike, head of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office's public security bureau, Hiroshi Ichikawa, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, and Tetsuro Kamata (C), deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, bow in apology to the bereaved family of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's lawyer. Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died next year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo)

Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

Tetsuro Kamata (C), deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, and prosecutors apologize at the grave of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's two sons (back). Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died the following year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo)

Gov't appeal of court ruling on illegal investigation case

Gov't appeal of court ruling on illegal investigation case

Masaaki Okawara (2nd from L), president of machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2024, after the Japanese government and the Tokyo metropolitan government appealed a court ruling in December that ordered them to compensate the president and two others for an unlawful investigation into the alleged illegal export of items seen as capable of being used in the production of biological weapons.

Gov't appeal of court ruling on illegal investigation case

Gov't appeal of court ruling on illegal investigation case

Masaaki Okawara (2nd from L), president of machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2024, after the Japanese government and the Tokyo metropolitan government appealed a court ruling in December that ordered them to compensate the president and two others for an unlawful investigation into the alleged illegal export of items seen as capable of being used in the production of biological weapons.

Gov't appeal of court ruling on illegal investigation case

Gov't appeal of court ruling on illegal investigation case

Masaaki Okawara, president of machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2024, after the Japanese government and the Tokyo metropolitan government appealed a court ruling in December that ordered them to compensate the president and two others for an unlawful investigation into the alleged illegal export of items seen as capable of being used in the production of biological weapons.