28.02.2017, Japan, Tokio: ARCHIV - ZUR UEBERGABE DES CHRYSANTHEMEN THRONS VON KAISAER AKIHITO AN KRONPRINZ NARUHITO AM MITTWOCH, 1. MAI 2019, STELLEN WIR IHNEN FOLGENDES BILDMATERIAL ZUR VERFUEGUNG - In this Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito waves as Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko depart for Vietnam from the Haneda International Airport in Tokyo. Japan's Cabinet has approved for legislative debate a bill to allow 83-year-old Emperor Akihito to abdicate. The legislation endorsed Friday, May 19, 2017 would allow Crown Prince Naruhito to succeed his father as emperor. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File) Foto: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP/dpa
Japan will discharge more than half a million criminals at a service to commemorate the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito next week, an official said Friday.
“We will properly implement the official pardons with a policy to promote social rehabilitation by increasing the criminals‘ desire to rehabilitate themselves,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo, Kyodo News reported.
Most of the freed convicts will include traffic offenders and those involved in secondary thefts.Nonetheless, those serving sentences will be unconsidered for pardons.
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