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.
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.