[tinus_hn]

For what it’s worth, the Japanese justice system has an over 99% conviction rate.

[jdtang13]

This 99% number does not mean what people think it means. The Japanese prosecution system is a pipeline that strongly filters out unlikely-to-be-convicted cases from the very beginning. Long before you are convicted, you might not even be arrested, or your case gets dismissed earlier in the pipeline. Here is a video, with references, from a relatively trustworthy source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINAk2xl8Bc

[maallooc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkoQjIBA_3U&feature=youtu.be

Yeah, I see. So, was the victim from the Nabari wine case vindicated? How about the Ashikaga murder case? Or the imperial bank poisoning case?

[keiferski]

Sure, absolutely the Japanese justice system has some serious problems, just as the American one does. But let's not pretend that they're remotely comparable to the CCP.

[sosborn]

> unlikely-to-be-convicted cases

Unfortunately this doesn't mean what people might think it means. "Unlikely-to-be-convicted" doesn't mean much when the police have so many tools available to force confessions, whether the person is guilty or not.

*Not comparing to CCP

[duxup]

Assuming that is accurate, do they just perhaps take a different approach to who they bother to prosecute?

Justice systems are really hard to compare considering the different circumstances.

[Krasnol]

Yeah and you're guilty until proven otherwise practically.

This in a system that still has a death penalty is quite unsettling.

[jbay808]

If you're going to parrot this factoid without context, please see the rebuttal here:

https://youtu.be/OINAk2xl8Bc

[jldugger]

Whats that number like in the US? Is it also 99%?

[maallooc]

95%