THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 23, 2020 at 18:21 JST
Equipment that determines DNA types at the National Police Agency’s National Research Institute of Police Science in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japanese law enforcement authorities now possess the DNA of 1 of every 100 citizens in Japan, as they have expanded the DNA crime database to about 1.3 million as of late 2019, The Asahi Shimbun has learned. [Read More]
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