Illustration: In a Japanese criminal courtroom, a prosecutor in a plain business suit stands at a side table and presents a bagged bolt cutter toward the elevated judge. Beside the evidence lies a photograph showing the same distinctive cutter marks on a broken bicycle lock.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

検けん事じ

kenji

public prosecutor

Example sentences

懲役ちょうえき２年ねんの判決はんけつに地方ちほう検事けんじは不満ふまんだった。
The district attorney wasn’t content with a two-year sentence.
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地方ちほう検事けんじは彼かれを盗ぬすみと殺人罪さつじんざいで起訴きそした。
The district attorney indicted him for theft and murder.
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検事けんじは誘導尋問ゆうどうじんもんをした。
The prosecutor asked me a leading question.
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Kanji in 検事

検examine; investigateOnケンKunしらべる
事matter; thingOnジ・ズKunこと・つかう・つかえる

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