Low Down

The overthrow of the Tokugawa rule necessitated the construction of a new Japanese state capable of commanding the loyalty of the people and mobilizing society in the quest for national wealth and power. However the ensuing processes of political centralization, nation building, industrialization, and integration into the international order created new complexities. Nonetheless as time passed new organized interests had been accommodated, conflicts between new classes emerged, radical visions of what kind of country Japan should become were put under control. The nature and purposes of the imperial state itself came into question in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan . This period describes something important which is an oligarchic rule (1880–1918), political democracy in the era of party government (1918–32), and fascism (1932–41) constituted successive, albeit overlapping, phases in Japanese attempts to address ‘‘the fear and problem of ungovernability’’. It is cha...

This article contains graphic images from real cases which may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.   The article will explain the police and pathologist role in identification and examination of lacerations and stab wounds, which are common and lead to demise, sometimes a very quick one.  Most of stab wounds are produced by pointed instruments. Majority of them are homicidal. In stab wounds, the depth of the wound track in the body exceeds its length in the skin. The edges of the wound in the skin are typically sharp, without abrasion or contusion. The typical weapons are knives, the most commonly used are: -           a flat-bladed knife, -           single-edged kitchen, pocket knife, -           folding knife with a 4- to 5-in. blade. But not only knives are used, other devices, such as ice picks, scissors, scre...

The usage of firearms is frequent and sometimes predominates other investigative cases. To follow the required procedures and protocol the police officers must ask proper questions beforehand, such as: -           what kind of weapon was used? -           Was the weapon in proper working order? -           How far was the weapon fired? -           Did a specific weapon fired a bullet? -           Did a particular person fire the weapon? The reconstruction of events and the outcome of it is crucial for the investigation, it is ballistic which thoroughly documents and investigates the firearms. It stands for the examination of trajectory taken by the projectile and the calculation of physics, the mathematical, meticulous knowledge which deeply hidden in numbers. The s...