Tokyo District Prosecutor General Manager Shinkawa Special Investigation Department's inaugural press conference “Understanding the truth truth” July 31 21:18
Mr. Takashi Shinkawa, who became the new director of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office, interviewed and said, "We would like to humbly face the law and the evidence and honestly elucidate the truth."
Mr. Shinkawa, who became the director of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office on 31st, is 55 years old from Ibaraki prefecture.
He has served as Deputy Director of Special Investigation Department of Tokyo District Prosecutor and Osaka District Prosecutor, and led the investigation of corruption cases of the former director of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology over the entrance examination of Tokyo Medical University.
Mr. Shinkawa said in an interview, "I think that the case is not to create it from scratch, but to find what is already happening. If I decide that I should work as a special investigation department, I humbly face the law and the evidence, and earnestly, I want to honestly elucidate the truth," he said.
In addition, regarding the sense of distance between the prosecution and politics, which was controversial over the extension of retirement of former prosecutor Kurokawa and the revision of the Public Prosecutor's Office Law, he said, "In order to get people to trust the work of the prosecution, a considerable distance is necessary. As with any other case, I would like to make a strict and impartial decision on calmness and demerit, as in other cases.
Mr. Hiroshi Morimoto, the previous chief of the special investigation department, who dealt with large-scale cases one after another, including the arrest of Nissan Motor's former chairman Ghosn and three incumbent Diet members, became the prosecutor's office of the Tsu District Public Prosecutors Office on the 31st.