That’s a stat that gets trotted out when a Cracker gets indicted for a crime in Japan and the Westoid media wants to weasel them out of it by accusing the Japanese justice system of being corrupt or unfair or whatever.
The articles who harp on about this 99% rate seldom stop to tell you that American Federal Courts often convict in the 99.8% range (pdf), or that the UK convicts somewhere in the 80 to 85% range.
Of course the Japanese justice system is broken in many ways, but it’s not helpful to keep repeating this number like it means anything, especially when Japanese prosecutors indict at rates lower than American and English ones.
China also has around the same conviction rates as Japan because indictments get withdrawn if acquittal is on the cards. I think there’s definitely problems with that kind of approach, but just pointing out the stats doesn’t paint the whole picture.
Yeah, I’ve had to correct people on this site on it like 6 times. No you can’t legally fuck 13 year olds in Japan!
Well you can if you’re in one of a couple extremely isolated fishing villages with a population of like 20 where the average age is 65, but otherwise no.
Deeply sad how much Japanese media points out these major issues with their society and it seems like it’s all shrugged at. The prevalence of dire working conditions and how that gets portrayed as essentially something that’s just a fact of life is just shitty. Guess that’s what happens when the US helps utterly crush all socialist/labor movements during occupation
thats partly because they don’t typically go to court unless they know for sure the case is a guilty case. they send the easy guilty cases to court. it’s shown by their relatively low indictment rate (implying they’re very selective on which cases go to court)
I can’t be assed to reply to every single one of the replies here but the Japanese criminal justice system will hold you without bail indefinitely in order to extract a confession.
Japan also has a very concerning 99% conviction rate.
That’s a stat that gets trotted out when a Cracker gets indicted for a crime in Japan and the Westoid media wants to weasel them out of it by accusing the Japanese justice system of being corrupt or unfair or whatever.
The articles who harp on about this 99% rate seldom stop to tell you that American Federal Courts often convict in the 99.8% range (pdf), or that the UK convicts somewhere in the 80 to 85% range.
Of course the Japanese justice system is broken in many ways, but it’s not helpful to keep repeating this number like it means anything, especially when Japanese prosecutors indict at rates lower than American and English ones.
China also has around the same conviction rates as Japan because indictments get withdrawn if acquittal is on the cards. I think there’s definitely problems with that kind of approach, but just pointing out the stats doesn’t paint the whole picture.
So I guess this is like the “age of consent in Japan is 13!!!” Thing.
Technically true (well, not any more) but in practice extremely misleading and spread for nefarious purposes?
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, I’ve had to correct people on this site on it like 6 times. No you can’t legally fuck 13 year olds in Japan!
Well you can if you’re in one of a couple extremely isolated fishing villages with a population of like 20 where the average age is 65, but otherwise no.
It’s literally what Ace Attorney is a Statement about for the most part and why prosecutors are the bad guys in that series
:winston-payne:
Ironically, he arguably has the cleanest hands of any prosecutor in the series
Deeply sad how much Japanese media points out these major issues with their society and it seems like it’s all shrugged at. The prevalence of dire working conditions and how that gets portrayed as essentially something that’s just a fact of life is just shitty. Guess that’s what happens when the US helps utterly crush all socialist/labor movements during occupation
thats partly because they don’t typically go to court unless they know for sure the case is a guilty case. they send the easy guilty cases to court. it’s shown by their relatively low indictment rate (implying they’re very selective on which cases go to court)
Weebs will complain about evil authoritarian China but then jerk of to single party state monarchist Japan with a 99% conviction rate
I can’t be assed to reply to every single one of the replies here but the Japanese criminal justice system will hold you without bail indefinitely in order to extract a confession.