I'll see what I can do. Based on what you describe, I agree: this raises very serious issues of international law, described by Elias Davidsson here:

http://www.aldeilis.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&i...

especially:

"(d) Does the duty to protect the right to life under the ICCPR, which the US has ratified, extend to the obligation of the contracting parties to "adequately investigate" the arbitrary deprivation of life within their own jurisdictions? If so, what is the exact content and scope of such an obligation? Did regional human rights courts identify and define an obligation to investigate the violation of the right to life?"

I'm not sure whether the Japanese police should investigate. It's more an issue of whether the Japanese government should demand that the United States government conduct an open investigation and criminal trial. (Update: Japanese police would have a role and duty in determining whether their counterparts in the United States adequately investigated the deaths of Japanese citizens.)

Perhaps we need an international tribunal. That was proposed by international law scholars early on:

http://www.ejil.org/forum_WTC/ny-cassese.html

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30A15F63E5F0C748DDDA809...

See also Davidsson's article "The Right to the Truth and the Events of 9/11" for more extended analysis under the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

http://www.aldeilis.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&i...

I've been hoping to write about this here, but will say now that I have come to strongly disagree with the argument that the legal burden of proof is on those who doubt the official story of 9/11. The state, which has control over all the information, has the burden of proving what happened, both because people were murdered and because this event has been used to justify the invasion of our and civil liberties and invasion of other countries' sovereignty.

Davidsson states:

"The right to truth regarding the circumstances in which offenses against the public order and human rights have been committed is linked to the principle of democracy. The fact that a modern state possesses vast powers, including a monopoly on the use of force to repress crime and enforce the law, requires the existence of effective safeguards against the potential abuse of state power. Accountability, of which the transparency of official conduct is an essential feature, aims to safeguard the public against arbitrary rule and the potential for corrupt and unlawful practices by public officials. Thus, the right to truth, along [with] the right to public trials and the right to access to government information, may be regarded as three types of accountability rights in a democratic society."

THIS is the beginning of global awareness of 9/11 truth. It will take the support of the world outside the USA for us to succeed. Thanks, Japan!

I look forward to the day when every US citizen who comes in contact with the rest of the world is confronted by 9/11 truth. This is not just about the USA, but the future of humanity.

The questioner Fujita Yukihisa's homepage(Japanese only)
http://www.y-fujita.com/
e-mail: info@y-fujita.com
Tel: +81-03-3508-8205
Fax: +81-03-5512-2205

House of Councilors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Councillors
http://www.sangiin.go.jp/eng/

OFFICIAL VIDEO ARCHIVE
Index page(Japanese only)
http://www.webtv.sangiin.go.jp/webtv/library/consider.php

Direct link to Windows Media Player streaming. (Full Version)
Total Time 3h 22m 51 s
Evidences will be shown at 18m 14s.
http://www.webtv.sangiin.go.jp/generator/meta_generator_wmv.php?ssp=8478...

Yet another YouTube URL
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvulJId4sI
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=JzvkVxqlIL0
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=awzrG2cCQuo

in the first video, he is saying this was a crime needing investigation, asking whether this was crime by Al Qaeda or by Al Qaeda only, asking whether the Japanese government did its own investigation given that it was a crime, asking about identification of the bodies of Japanese victims, and stating that this crime is the premise of the war and terror and if we don't know who did it how can we justify the war on terror. He didn't get much in the way of answers -- just statements that they relied on U.S. government reports and/or don't have the exact answers at hand. The Prime Minister answers first, basically just saying they relied on U.S. reports, then the Minister of Foreign Affairs answers about Japanese victims. A bureaucrat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs answers about the bodies, not saying much other than they got reports from the U.S. Gov't about DNA identification. Fujita then questions whether that is enough, given that this is a crime, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs gets up and basically says they were satisfied with the information received, and I think he says they assisted with cremation. Fujita ends by saying that throughout the world there is much information being presented that raises doubts about 9/11, including by eminent people, and if the Japanese government is going to take responsibilty for the victims, and if it has any doubt about its prior determination that Al Qaeda was involved, then they need to act resolutely with integrity, and need to reconsider the premise of the fight against terrorism.

This is very rough and incomplete and maybe inaccurate, but it should do for now.

Is there any press coverage of this exchange in Japan? I can not seem to find any.

If not, is the suppression of 9/11 Truth by the Japanese press similiar to that in the US?

Member of Japanese Diet Doubts Official 9/11 Fairy Tale

http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1644

Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
January 12, 2008

Don’t expect the New York Times or CNN to report on Fujita Yukihisa’s grilling of Japanese PM Fukuda over the official 9/11 fairy tale.

Yukihisa is a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet, that is to say the national legislature of Japan, and his questions about the transparent sham that is the official version of events is indeed a big deal — but not as important in America as the travails of Britney. Yukihisa’s presentation was all the more important due to the fact he was the Chief Cabinet Secretary under former PM Junichiro Koizumi in 2001.

Although we don’t yet have an English translation of the video — taped from Japanese television — now appearing on YouTube, the 911.video.de site posted the following, apparently a translation from Japanese:

On January 11th 2008 member of Parliament Yukihisa Fujita of the Japan Democratic party, made a 20 minute long statement at the House of Councillors, the upper house of the Diet (parliament) of Japan. He questioned the official version of 9/11 presented to the Japanese government and the public by the US administration in a session of the defense commission.

He asked the current Prime Minister Fukuda who was the Chief Cabinet Secretary under Koizumi cabinet in 2001.

“How could terrorists attacked the Pentagon?”

He asked whether Terrorism is crime or war. Some Japanese people were killed, so he believes this was a crime, so Japanese police should investigate the real suspect even though Japanese government assumed that the suspect was Al-Queda since Bush told Koizumi so and sent the self-defense force to Iraq. Can Japanese police arrest president Bush if he was one of the suspects?

The statement was made in connection with the discussion about the renewal of the Japanese logistic assistance program for the US navy in the “fight against terrorism”.

US President George W Bush has recently pressed Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to ensure Tokyo resumes crucial naval operations to support the war in Afghanistan. The Japan Democratic party which is in the opposition is blocking the resumption of the mission,which supplies fuel and water to US-led forces operating in the Indian Ocean.

The government wants to continue and to be part of the fight against terrorism. The opposition argues that the operation has not been approved formally by the United Nations. It claims that oil supplied by Japanese ships has been diverted for use in operations in Iraq, an accusation the Americans deny.

The government has made changes to the legislation which authorizes the mission. It has to be renewed every year after approval by parliament. The new law says Japanese ships can only refuel and supply water to vessels on anti-terrorism patrols. Ships involved in military operations — whether they be attacks, rescue operations or humanitarian relief — will not receive Japanese supplies.

Yukihisa Fujita did question Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Minister of Finance Fukushiro Nukaga about the way in which the US government did inform the Japanese government about the people responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

Mr.Yukihisa Fujita stressed that of the 24 people that died on 9/11 only 13 were identified and 11 bodies remain unaccounted for. He pointed out that there was never an official police investigation into the deaths of these japanese nationals.

He then explained that in the USA many people doubt the official version of 9/11 and numerous websites and scientists have collected evidence that contradicts the governments version..

He presented several largescale photographs of:
a) the Pentagon entry and exit hole
b) the flight path towards the Pentagon
c) the exploding WTC towers
d) the WTC 7 collapse.

He concluded that the japanese governments support of the “war against terror” is solely based on information provided by the US-administration. He demanded further investigation in the face of the governments drive to support the war more actively.

Yukihisa Fujita was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007

The Democratic Party of Japan (Minshinto) is a social liberal political party founded in 1998 by the merger of several smaller parties.

It is the second-largest party in the House of Representatives and the largest party in the House of Councillors, and it constitutes the primary opposition to the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party.

Here we have a respected Japanese politician asking on public television if Bush can be arrested in connection with events of September 11, 2001, and the corporate media finds this unworthy of publication or even mention in passing.

But then, of course, the neocon corporate media, snugly in bed with the “defense” industry and long ago sold down the river by the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, has ignored the coming out of former Italian president Francesco Cossiga, who declared the attack was a CIA and Mossad operation. As well, they have ignored former German Intelligence Minister Andreas von Bülow, who stated his informed belief that 9/11 was orchestrated at the highest level of the U.S. government.

Once again, another important news story is relegated to the memory hole.

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The CONSTITUTION is NOT going to "collapse" into pulverized dust no matter how much thermate/explosives or planes they throw at it