These dudes are more viciously racist than some western fascists. Same old master race story too. If you aren’t born Japanese in Japan, you don’t belong according to them

  • UglySpaghettiHoe [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You want some real nightmare shit then read up on how japanese courts work. They judges are basically there just punish anyone the police puts infront of them

    • bark [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      So it's basically identical to Americas system?

      https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/national/media-national/international-scrutiny-japans-criminal-justice-system-fair/

      Only real difference is a rich guy got arrested.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        4 years ago

        Their prosecution system had like a near-perfect record. You literally have to be perfectly innocent with air-tight proof to have a fraction of a chance of walking free if you're in their courtsystem

        • radicalhomo [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Why is their incarceration rate so low though? 17 times lower than America's (.639% vs .038% of the population), which doesn't say much itself since the US is the highest in the world, but Japan is also one of the lowest in the world too (see here and here)

          • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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            4 years ago

            Because they're so racist they don't allow anyone to immigrate in. Having no minorities to jail because you keep them out might be the only positive thing from that shit island.

            • radicalhomo [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              That's probably a big part of it. But Japan is like 2% immigrants while China is only 0.1%, and China has about twice the relative prisoners

              • lilpissbaby [any]
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                4 years ago

                China has a lower % of immigrants because it has a huge population and wasn't seen as a desirable place to live not too long ago - it still isn't seen as desirable to a lot of people. China is also a poorer country, meaning more criminality and incarceration. These latter factors being a lot more important in terms of policing and criminality than immigration.

                • radicalhomo [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  The last part makes a lot of sense. The first part is also because China has very strict immigration policies, only recently did they make things more lenient for foreigners with major contributions/those with high-incomes to become citizens, and the vast majority of their refugees are all from Vietnam in the 70s

            • leftcompride [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              Wut? Are you saying that the crime rate is low because there are no minorities? The crime rate is low in Japan because people commit less crime there, what do minorities have to do with anything?

    • Rem [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I've seen this spun as "In Japan the police are so good at their job that they only ever prosecute people who actually did it" by clueless libs.

    • bark [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Personally I think their 1 party mockery of democracy is a bigger problem.

    • fed [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It’s kinda different because the prosecutors only really bring cases where there is an abundance of evidence to convict normally. Or they used to.

      This leads to the problem where judges believe the only reason the case was brought before them is because there is an abundance of evidence, even when there really isn’t

      Don’t get me wrong, both systems suck, but I’d rather have the Japanese one