Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife granted bail

"The prime minister has denied that either he or his wife was involved"

Despite the fact that they're still removing her name from the documentation concerning the sale

should be another couple behind bars!!

10 months in jail! Where are the beauracracts who actually let this happen, on the behalf of the PM his wife and the whole Nippon Kaigi club. Prosecutors should be chasing the paper trail, doing their job.

It is ridiculous they were detained for ten months. Apparently it was done to shut his mouth out. It is Abe and his wife who should be at the detention center for investigations.

No sympathy for these two-faced loony-bins. Wasn't she the one who physically abused a very young boy in her kindergarten all because he didn't say hello in the proper way? Disgusting excuse of a human being. The Kagoikes today, the Abes tomorrow. Oh well, wishful thinking. I just love it when two nasty parties are pitted against each other and turn on each other.

While Kagoike declined to discuss his own case, he called the charges against his wife, who began sobbing at one point 

A natural reaction when your backwards and dangerous worldview comes crashing down. Not really her fault though, possessed by an ideology. Hope by all this stuff coming out and the plans they had for the minds of young children is revealed it will be put in the dustbin of the nations history. It is telling how they have been left out in the cold to fend for themselves by the PM and the First Lady too. Very telling indeed.

Why has she benn grabted bail?

She could leave the country.

Who paid the bail money？

As much as people may dislike the ideologies and practices of the Kagoikes ( me included), they have a right for the due course of the law to be played out in all fairness.

Their continual detention and denial of rights, such as to meet family members and friends is certainly undemocratic.

From other sources,  I have read it seems like prosecutors have been seeking their confessions for most of that time, perhaps because concrete evidence is not there.. The old "Sign Here!!!"  And by detaining them for this extraordinary amount of time, they have essentially been muzzled and demonized - which all plays into maintaining the political / public well being of Abe.

If the prosecutors believed they had solid cases against them, why not take them to court. Is it because,  maybe in court they will have the freedom to spill more than just beans.

The magna carta written over 800 years ago created the right of  Habeas Corpus - simply the right to not be detained improperly and the right to a fair trial, is often recognized as the cornerstone of citizens liberty, why can't this basic human right be exercised in the cases of the Kagoikes? Japan is a democracy isn't it?

The Kagoike's long period of detention without trial was certainly politically motivated. Notice how not a single bureaucrat who illegally tried to cover up Abe's involvement has been arrested or jailed? Abe also prevented the arrest of his alleged-rapist mate. This is Japanese "justice" in action.

Though I cannot stand the Kakoike's there is something really sinister about detaining them for 10 months to keep them quiet.

Japan is squeaky clean and cutesy on the outside but it sure has a rotten core.

@browny1 their continual detention and denial of rights, such as to meet family members and friends is certainly undemocratic.

Uh browny, how long have to been in Japan? Denial of rights is the norm in Japan and every int'l rights

organization has been screaming about it for years... Japan doesn't give a hoot.

Abe and Akie should be right there next to them. How can you justify arresting these 2 while the PM and his wife go free? And not only that, but also be linked to countless other scandals? In a democracy Abe and Akie would be behind bars, but as MANY posters here and in the past have correctly stated- Japan is not in any way shape or form a democracy nor a nation that cares about human rights.

Disgusting.

They had named her to an "honorary" position which she declined and they removed her themselves, after the scandal broke.

It's always been my understanding that they offered, she accepted and then quickly withdrew once the scandal was revealed by an article in the Asahi Shimbun on Feb 9th 2017.

As Browny1 points out above, Habeas Corpus seems to apply on a case by case basis in Japan.

In these kinds of photos there is always somebody blubbering away and bowing apologetically. Too little, too late.

Take it like a man, or a woman in this case.

She is the lowest type of racist scum, she deserves to be behind bars for life. She's going to be watched like a hawk from now though. She's free but she won't have an easy ride

Not sure whether this has been posted by someone else before, but here's another video thrown in for good measure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc8_s09QEYY

If only someone could push him into the swamp.

Nasty, nasty couple with no redeeming features. Just take The Abes with you when the prison guards lock the doors.

10 months in jail on suspicion of a ery troubling. Is this a third world country?!!!

The concept of innocent until proven guilty has been turned on it's head in Japan.

A detention center is designed to put the inmate under as much psychological stress as possible.

Granting bail infers that the person may acrually be innocent, so the prosecutor will always contest it.

Judges in Japan seem to have no minds of their own and just rubber stamp everything that the proscutor demands. Completly inept.

When arrested in Japan a person must appear before a judge in 48 hours. This particular judge seems to serve no useful purpose at all. They never question the police or prosecutor.

Definately a third world legal system.

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Saw the love felt press meet on the tele. Both intriguing, freaky and politically relevant all at the same time. Don’t get a trifecta like that very often.