That's fair. Japan's courts are basically a confession mill, or at least they were when I first learned about them in the late 1990s. Who knows what they're like now.
A failure to convict is seen as a loss of face/honor on the police and prosecutors.
That's fair. Japan's courts are basically a confession mill, or at least they were when I first learned about them in the late 1990s. Who knows what they're like now.
A failure to convict is seen as a loss of face/honor on the police and prosecutors.
They don't have plea bargaining either.