Japan's parliament on Monday passed legislation making "online insults" punishable by imprisonment amid rising public concern over cyberbullying sparked by the suicide of a reality television star who had faced social media abuse.
Japan's legal system is a liberal bourgeois system, so of course it's bad. However, when compared to other bourgeois legal systems, it does not stand out as being dramatically worse.
For example, 97% of us federal indictments get pleaded out (i.e. the defendant admits to guilt) and of the remaining 3% that go to trial, more than 80% of defendants are convicted anyway.
You basically have the same chance of losing once you get sucked into either legal system, except Japan doesn't do plea bargaining so their stats seem worse in certain ways.
I'm not saying any of this to defend the japanese legal system, but rather because the 99% stat most often gets trotted out when a white person is being accused of a crime to hypocritically delegitimize the process.
They also have 23 days of detention without charge in which they torture suspects with sleep deprivation and forcing them to face toward bright lights
And beating
In the US it's like 48 hours
They also only give bail to people who confess lmao. And they don't record the interrogations.
They can rearrest you after 23 days on new grounds, for another 23 days.
Japan is an irredeemably fascist state painted over with self-serving pacifism, led out of the militaristic era by the world's leading fascist hegemon.
And yet their incarceration and crime rates are way below the global average. Japan's police system isn't good, only police abolition is good, but their system is one of the best in the world in terms of outcomes, due in large part to their robust social democracy.
Japan has a 99% conviction rate so yeah this is bad.
Japan's legal system is a liberal bourgeois system, so of course it's bad. However, when compared to other bourgeois legal systems, it does not stand out as being dramatically worse.
For example, 97% of us federal indictments get pleaded out (i.e. the defendant admits to guilt) and of the remaining 3% that go to trial, more than 80% of defendants are convicted anyway.
You basically have the same chance of losing once you get sucked into either legal system, except Japan doesn't do plea bargaining so their stats seem worse in certain ways.
https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/carlos-ghosn-and-japans-99-conviction-rate/
I'm not saying any of this to defend the japanese legal system, but rather because the 99% stat most often gets trotted out when a white person is being accused of a crime to hypocritically delegitimize the process.
Cardassian-ass justice system....
Actually, you'll find that not prosecuting crimes for which there is little or only circumstantial evidence is a good thing.
They also have 23 days of detention without charge in which they torture suspects with sleep deprivation and forcing them to face toward bright lights
And beating
In the US it's like 48 hours
They also only give bail to people who confess lmao. And they don't record the interrogations.
They can rearrest you after 23 days on new grounds, for another 23 days.
Japan is an irredeemably fascist state painted over with self-serving pacifism, led out of the militaristic era by the world's leading fascist hegemon.
And yet their incarceration and crime rates are way below the global average. Japan's police system isn't good, only police abolition is good, but their system is one of the best in the world in terms of outcomes, due in large part to their robust social democracy.
72 hours in most of the US. If someone confesses or pleas at 71 hours you know it was coerced somehow.
The 1% is for the 1%