Letter
notification forbidding torture., August 25, 1874
[Inclosure in No. 125.—Translation.]
notification forbidding torture.
To the several courts and kens of the Empire of Japan:
This proclamation is made:
We have had a usage from former times of examination by torture. It would be a great wrong if under this usage innocent persons suffer; therefore this practice shall no longer be exercised However, for still a short period, in cases where any difficulty occurs in the examination without the exercise of torture, there is no objection to use it; but a monthly report of all such cases shall be made to this department, which shall state the reason why torture is applied.
oki takatoo,
Minister Judicial Department.
Minister Judicial Department.
August 25, 1874.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.