東京高検検事長に林氏　黒川氏辞職で―政府

　政府は、緊急事態宣言中の賭けマージャンが発覚して辞職した黒川弘務前東京高検検事長の後任に、２６日付で林真琴名古屋高検検事長（６２）を充てる人事を正式に決めた。東京高検検事長は検事総長に次ぐ法務・検察ナンバー２のポスト。稲田伸夫検事総長の後任となる見通しだ。
　林氏は黒川氏と司法修習の同期。法務省刑事局長として「共謀罪」の構成要件を改めた「テロ等準備罪」を新設した改正組織犯罪処罰法の成立に尽力し、黒川氏とともに稲田氏の後任の有力候補と目されていた。（2020/05/26-05:06）

The Japanese government appointed Makoto Hayashi as head of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office effective Tuesday, after former chief Hiromu Kurokawa stepped down over a gambling scandal.
   Hayashi, 62, who was head of the Nagoya High Public Prosecutors Office, took on the number two job for prosecutors and is expected to later succeed Nobuo Inada as prosecutor-general, the top position.
   Hayashi became a prosecutor in 1983. He served as chief prosecutor at the Sendai District Public Prosecutors Office and director-general of the Criminal Affairs Bureau at the Justice Ministry, before attaining his position at the Nagoya office in January 2018.
   Hayashi and Kurokawa began formal legal training in the same year. Hayashi had been considered a potential successor to Inada along with Kurokawa, as he was instrumental in the government's push to pass a controversial anticonspiracy bill calling for criminalizing planning and preparing acts of terrorism and other serious offenses before they are committed, during his time as head of the ministry's Criminal Affairs Bureau.
   The change of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office's chief came after Shukan Bunshun, a Japanese weekly magazine, reported that Kurokawa played mahjong for money with a newspaper journalist and others on May 1 and May 13, during the state of emergency declared by the Japanese government over the coronavirus outbreak. Kurokawa resigned Friday after admitting to the betting in an investigation by the Justice Ministry.