[liftbigweights]

> After that there’s a 99.99% confession rate.

That's because prosecutors in Japan and other countries generally go after "sure" cases.

Canada has a 97% conviction. US has a 93% conviction rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate

> Carlos Ghosn, president of Nissan, seems to have just discovered it: He will be interrogated for 12 days. I would never go to such countries.

At least he'll get court case rather than disappearing in a japanese embassy.

Japan has its problem but it's absurd to compare it to the horrors in the middle east.