検察官定年、６５歳に　法務省、自民に引き上げ案提示

　法務省は２１日、検事総長を除く検察官の定年を現行の６３歳から６５歳に段階的に引き上げる検察庁法改正案を、自民党の法務部会などの合同会議に示した。政府は同法案を含む国家公務員定年延長関連法案を３月上旬にも閣議決定し、今国会に提出する方針だ。
　検察庁法改正案は検察官の定年を２０２２年度に６４歳、２４年度に６５歳とする内容。検事総長は現行の６５歳のまま据え置き、検察官全体の定年年齢は一律となる。同法は他の国家公務員とは別に検察官の定年を定めている。（2020/02/22-00:51）

Japan's Justice Ministry has drafted a bill to raise the retirement age of public prosecutors, excluding the prosecutor-general, who is the chief of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, to 65 from 63 at present.
   The bill to amend the law on prosecutors offices, presented to a joint meeting of the justice and other divisions of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday, calls for raising the prosecutor retirement age to 64 in fiscal 2022 and to 65 in fiscal 2024. The retirement age of the prosecutor-general, which already stands at 65, will not be changed.
   The ministry also submitted a bill to raise the retirement age of national civil servants to 65 from 60 in stages.
   But the LDP side withheld its approval as some participants at the meeting strongly called for accelerating the reform of the civil service system, such as thoroughly implementing a performance-based promotion and salary system.
   In a recent development that stirred controversy, the tenure of Hiromu Kurokawa, chief prosecutor at the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, who reached the retirement age on Feb. 7 under the prosecutors offices law, was extended until Aug. 7 using a provision on the extension of the retirement age under the national civil service law.