<entry id="2213698" stat="D" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2826373</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>過酷尋問</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>かこくじんもん</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<misc>&rare;</misc>
<gloss>harsh interrogation</gloss>
<gloss>enhanced interrogation</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2014-12-22 03:10:06" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_detl>maybe not common enough (sorry for not 
checking better, on the cell)</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>http://sp.mainichi.jp/select/news/20141222
k0000m030055000c.html
ＣＩＡ過酷尋問：「テロ防止に有益」米国民の５６％</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2014-12-22 06:03:19" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>there must be a more common term for this, but "enhanced interrogation" is not even in eijiro</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>27 ngrams, 113 google hits
"強化尋問 " gets 0 ngrams, 119 google hits</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2014-12-22 11:39:49" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>"enhanced interrogation" is an evasive English euphemism. The Japanese means something like "harsh interrogation", so perhaps that should be the main gloss.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;harsh interrogation&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2014-12-23 01:55:48" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>perhaps "enhanced interrogation" should be removed altogether</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-15 00:56:10" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>303 results google web results for "過酷尋問"
Seems to me that this term was coined as a translation specifically for "enhanced interrogation." All the usages that I see are related to the american government.
Not sure it's worth keeping

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬─────╮
│ 過酷な尋問　　 │ 241 │
│ 過酷尋問　　　 │  27 │
│ 苛酷尋問　　　 │   0 │
│ かこくじんもん │   0 │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴─────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;rare;&lt;/misc&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-15 02:19:15" stat="D" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I don't think it's needed.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-15 04:33:23" stat="D">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Since the Japanese doesn't capture the rather nasty euphemism of the original English, and as it stands it's an uncommon A+B compound, it may as well go.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>