For most criminals, the country's justice system is remarkably lenient and focused on rehabilitation. The system places huge emphasis on confessions. Admitting guilt is considered the first step towards rehabilitation. It is also, however, the "king of evidence" in cases too serious to let the suspect walk free.Anonymous
As we check in on the Asian markets for the first quarter of the year, we’re diving into various current events including the coronavirus epidemic, the Trilateral Summit between Japan, China, and Korea, and Carlos Ghosn’s complaints of the Japanese criminal justice system. Joining Michael Coh...
Japanese civil rights groups and the main bar lawyers association have long criticized a system that convicts 99.9% of criminal defendants. They say it gives too much power to prosecutors, who can detain suspects for long periods before indictment, and relies too much on con...
smuggled out of the country in December aboard a private jet bound for Lebanon, where he holds citizenship and which has no extradition treaty with Japan. Ghosn, who maintains his innocence, said he had no choice but to flee because Japan’s “rigged” criminal justice system would have denie...
The four goals of punishment in the American criminal justice system are retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. The purpose of the four goals of punishment is to ensure that the sentence the criminal is receiving is reasonable and just. It is difficult to satisfy all of the...
this would have severely undermined the power basis of Abe’s government, ruining his long-standing political ambitions: what Abe called “The Departure from the Post-war Regime,” which was the all-inclusive reformation of Japan’s existing political, economic, and social system, the basis for...
UN Human Rights Commission has urged Japan to abolish thisdaiyo kangokusystem; however, the country has sought only the partial improvement. The DPJ government copes with the making of the bill for the video recording of interrogation in order to prevent false or forced confessions; however, this...
“Our nation’s criminal justice system protects the basic human rights of an individual and properly carries out appropriate procedures to disclose the truth of various cases, and the flight of a suspect while out on bail is never justified,” she said in a statement. Advertisement Mori’s st...
Ad Feedback Both are punishable under the law. Seiho Cho, a Japan-based criminal lawyer, warned that the revised law gave no classification of what constitutes an insult. “There needs to be a guideline that makes a distinction on what qualifies as an insult,” Cho said. “For example, ...
Legal expert Yatagawa said she respected Shiori Ito’s bravery, and thought her case would encourage other victims to come forward. But there were many legal changes that still needed to happen. “I don’t think her case can change Japanese justice system of rape at once,” she said....