Police, Prosecutors Apologize to Ohkawara Kakohki

   Yokohama, June 20 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo police and public prosecutors on Friday apologized to the president of Ohkawara Kakohki Co., a former executive and others after a recent court ruling on a damages lawsuit found their investigations into the machinery maker were illegal.
   Tetsuro Kamata, deputy superintendent-general of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department, and Hirohide Mori, head of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's public security division, made the apology at the company's head office in Yokoyama, south of Tokyo.
   In March 2020, the MPD's Public Security Bureau arrested President Masaaki Okawara and two other Ohkawara Kakohki executives, alleging that the company exported without permission a spray dryer that could be repurposed for weapons production.
   One of the former executives, Shizuo Aishima, was found to have stomach cancer while in detention. He died at the age of 72.
   In July 2021, the public prosecutors dropped the charges against them, just before the first criminal court hearing on the case.

(2025/06/20-17:51)

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