Attorney Mori `` We have done personnel affairs properly '' Retirement period extension of Tokyo High Prosecutor Attorney March 3 14:24
Over the retirement of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutor's Office, the Minister of Justice Mori stated at the House of Councilors Budget Committee that `` the interpretation of the extension of service is by no means an afterthought, '' and emphasized that the personnel had been appropriately assigned at the responsibility of the Minister of Justice. did.
Regarding the extension of retirement by Attorney Kurokawa of the Tokyo High Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Justice explained that the legal interpretation was changed in late January before the Cabinet decision was made, and that retirement could be extended, but the opposition parties said. It is a postscript interpretation of the law to extend Kurokawa's retirement age. "
In this regard, the Minister of Justice Mori said in the Upper House Budget Committee, "The legal interpretation of the extension of service is not an afterthought. It has been decided to cut only a part of the reply, but as stated in the material submitted to the Diet, before the Cabinet decision. Was discussed as part of the discussion on raising the retirement age of the National Public Service Law, which had been held since the time of former Minister of Justice Yamashita. "
"I'm skeptical, as if it were a HR intervention in the official residence, but it's absolutely unfounded. I'm also a lawyer and a lawyer with a sense of ethics." We performed appropriate personnel affairs with the responsibility of the Minister of Justice. "