Overview
- The defense, which filed the petition Friday, asks Tokyo District Court to order a criminal trial of the former special‑investigations prosecutor.
- Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office declined to indict on March 30, saying suspicion was insufficient and evidence did not show illegal conduct that caused marked mental distress.
- The defendant alleges the prosecutor called him “antisocial” during questioning over many hours across 41 straight days and used taunts to press him to break his silence.
- The petitioner is Techno System president Naoyuki Ikuta, who was sentenced on March 13 to 11 years for defrauding lenders of about ¥2.2 billion and has appealed, with the court calling parts of the interrogation inappropriate but finding guilt from other evidence.
- A fushinhan petition lets a private party ask a court to open a case despite a non‑prosecution decision, which is rare in Japan and has recently sent a different prosecutor to trial in an Osaka case.