Masaaki Osaka, left, accused of killing a police officer during a riot in Tokyo in 1971, arrives at Osaka airport before being transferred to the capital, on Wednesday. Photo: Kyodo
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Far-left activist charged with police slaying after 45 years on run

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Thanks Sam that's most probably the reason. Surely though as you suggest digital documents should mean the end of these statutes.

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I have the feeling that the only reason the police were still so actively pursuing this case is because it was a police officer who was murdered... would they be as dogged if it was just a regular person who was killed? I hope my feeling is wrong though.

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It was explained to me that the reason for a statute of limitations was that the paperwork became obtrusive. Now that things can be stored digitally there is no further need for time limitations.

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Statute of limitations... I can appreciate such a thing for very minor offences but any criminal offence should have no such thing. For example some of these corporate and governmental fraud cases pocketed millions to the offenders and though now the evidence indicates that these people are as guilty as sin and have lived a life of luxury, they cannot be prosecuted because of this act. Similar again to rapists and child molesters.

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It is the law of Universe to punish the culprit even after forty years. It never fails. Justice may be delayed or denied, but the law of action would catch you unaware.

It fails many times and there is no such "law". Many culprits go unpunished.

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It is the law of Universe to punish the culprit even after forty years. It never fails. Justice may be delayed or denied, but the law of action would catch you unaware.

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Is a radical liberal not a contradiction? You can have radical right wing and left wing activists, you can have radical religious zealots but radical liberalism? I think not.

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@Wolfpack 

Arch liberal? i never heard that term before. Like who? Maybe you mean like far left anarchists? But he proves they're hardly just in America.

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These are the kinds of people that become heroes to America's arch Liberals. Glad that in Japan these radical thugs have not been normalized.

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People like him give activists a bad name and harm the cause, more often than not.

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Glad they got him... and also glad that they dropped that stupid Statute of Limitations rule... it's just a daft idea.

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