EU condemns the execution of a 9 times rapist and killer
(www.eeas.europa.eu)
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Japan has a lot of failings when it comes to convicting the innocent and treating the entire court system as a formality to charge whoever makes them look best.
But, they literally found the bodies in his house and he made little effort to hide that. It is the most textbook guilty possible, and there is little need for appealing that. Execution should be swift in any case like this.
Do they convict a lot of the innocent? Ive heard the opposite that prosecutors dont bother with cases unless theyre sure its a win, so a lot of criminals go free, especially fraud or white collar.
If the cops consider you a main suspect, its like a 97% chance of being found guilty regardless of what evidence they do or don't have. They could just cut the entire court system out and imprison whoever they guess did it, and almost nothing would honestly change result wise from right now.
By it being "sure of a win" they mean someone is already pinned for it and the rest is formality. And if someone isn't, or is so powerful that its uncertain, then yeah they just let it go.
Its even worse because their heavy shame society means people will be pressured to just confess to not embarrass their families and accept the accusation. So even if all of that wasn't true, it would still be a huge problem as someone like their brother would threaten them into going along with it anyway.
The cops don't really do the charging. It's the prosecution, much like korea iirc. Their high win rate was explained to me as they only fight cases they can win, not they're corrupt and frame people
If the cops brought you in, the prosecution isn't going to go against them by not charging you. And vice versa. They are still Asian bugmen, working under a hive mentality and not going against the cohesion of the organization. Though you are right the prosecution is the main source of it all.
And framing implies there is a manufactured narrative of them being guilty through evidence. The vast majority of their crimes are convicted based on confessions. Which are usually extracted via locking you in a room until you do so, usually without any counsel. What goes on in that room is probably not good either. Its so common they have a term for it, "Hitojichi shihō" or "hostage justice."
Even back in 1985 a famous law scholar (Ryūichi Hirano) in the country described the entire system as hopeless and designed to simply confirm whatever the prosecutor wanted, with the courts being a formality. Heck while looking this up I found out that suspended jury trials before WW2 and didn't bring them back until 2009 and its still 6 people and 3 "professional judges" (aka the ones who will being making the call).
It was actually considered a landmark change in summer 2024 when Tokyo and Osaka brought criminal charges against prosecutors for locking suspect in the interrogation rooms and extracting confessions out of them despite being innocent.
Their legal system is fucked on multiple levels, even if its partially responsible for them having such a "high trust" society that we all envy.