Why Japan's Conviction Rate is 99% (Actually Explained)

“If you confess, you can go home and maybe you will pay a fine later and everything will be over”
If they say that, should we accept that deal? Like can that sentence be a trick to get you to confess because if you are accepting the deal that means you are confessing for a easier punishment.

The media is prone to click baiting stories. So the moral of the story is to do your own research and investigate. Thank you Yuta san.

Still just as bad. You are at the mercy of the prosecutors. Also, the judge has to make decisions inline with them. Any corrupt prosecutor like Miles Edgeworth can send false evidence and get you convicted, Or giving bribes and falsely releasing you.

On my planet FiruIitt, they give you truth serum for 3 days and listen to you confess every crime you ever commited. Then they convict you in your sleep and ask if you should be punished. Most people say to punish them... Then they come out of sleep and are sent to a jail with the memory of their actions erased.

Film theory.

Basically the judges aren't the judges, the cops are the judges.

If anyone can read Japanese, please read a few books written by 清水潔.

I've heard this repeated by supposedly reputable comparative politics professors in America.

Welcome to the Economist lol

Good video, arigato!

Sorry to say I watched 金田一 too much

28% huh, so this is how prosecutor exercising their dominus litis right or to be presice their right of opportunities, i was hoping yuta could explain how japanese laws works more detail, i was studying crime law on university on my country, tbh based on what yuta explained, japanese law enforcement do a better job than my country, in my country when the cases has entered the prosecutor's desk, everyone is absolutely guilty

Because they send to jail innocent people who are forced to take blame by violating cvilised standars and human rights.

Japan just have different field of play 🙂

Take it however you see fit. 🙂

40% of all Investigation gets a convicted is still rly high in germany its like 27% or something.

I was just wondering why Japan doesn't give suspects the right to remain silent and right to counsel during questioning. That's a big reason on why the conviction rate is so high! We Americans got those rights, and our conviction rates got lower because of it.

I know you make a huge effort to put your country in a positive light and I respect you for it, I've learned a ton about Japan from watching your channel. In this instance, I must respectfully disagree, a 99% conviction rate is insanely high even if most cases are dropped prior to going to trial.

What about carlos ghosn?

Justice for Junko Furuta
Japan failed to give justice to the innocent girl
RIP

yeh bullshit. tell that to Carlos ghoson... Fuked up justice system.

It's not really misleading. I doubt anyone was under the impression that even the smallest transgression resulted in a jail sentence in Japan. This 99+% conviction rate suggests that police and prosecutors decide the fate of the defendant without the chance for a defense. You need attorneys to defend your rights and challenge the government.

Carlos Ghosn was right to leave the Japanese injustice system. Like if you agree.

Its the same in my country. I'm an attorney. Its not really justice - we have serious crimes but if there's no evidence then the prosecutor declines to prosecute.

I live in the US and I believe our justice system has serious flaws (overworked public defenders, vast majority of cases end in plea bargain, the bail system) but Japan still sounds worse.

Crap bro, i love some stuff from japan but i woulnt ever travel there this weird system some how doesnt surprise me coming from japanences, they seem to be very ortodox even when wrong wont change.

You are utterly full of shit... I'm not sure what worse japan's human rights violations or you trying to defend them...

I dont think the media mislead people in terms of making people think that in japan means u have 99% chance of conviction.

I think the people misunderstood due to their own lack of knowledge about legal proceedings. I actually watch the Economist video before i came here, i had no such misunderstanding. But i suppose Economist could have done a better job explaining to people that lacks even the most basic understanding of modern criminal justice system.

lol American think japan's justice system is worse than US. In US rich people are easily getting away with any crimes. If Carlos Ghosn were in US, He would never been arrested even if he stolen $80 million from Nissan. You can also erase any evidence or kill any witnesses with bride. just like jeffey epstein.

France issued an international arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn recently.

Japan was right.

Who is this propaganda ist

This is the reason why the former prime minister abe got shot

Thank you for this video. I was very suspicious after watching that exact economist video.
I was like "99%?! no way. That smells like cooked numbers to me."

One man was arrested and convicted and thrown into a dark solitary cell for 20 years, he is a vegetable now.

From a perspective of looking at reality, being able to detain an arrested person for more than a week is terrible. After more than a week many weaker minded people end up admitting to things they didn't do.

If your sister wants money, she can force you to give it to you by suing you right? And what happens if you don't make enough money to pay her whatever she demands every month? You get arrested even though you were peacefully living your married life, and then get thrown into jail because of your sisters greed?

Because of Carlos Ghosn, we learned that the judiciary in Japan is corrupt and the police are corrupt

This is what scares me about living in Japan. I thought Deadman Wonderland was an exaggeration, but it's apparently closer to reality than it should be😭😭
What if I'm falsely accused and as a foreigner I'm just over there struggling with my broken Japanese.

Very nicely explained, makes a lot more sense now.

Seems reasonable

Obviously the madoka villian on your table is MAKING you say that riiiiight?

The fact is this system sends TONS of innocent people to prison and lets iust as many guilty go.

Me getting stared on by kyubey for 11 minutes feels unsettling and terrifying. The prison system in Japan is mostly a devils deal for the average person.

Japan's got a weak ass justice system.

Do Japanese judges not properly hear cases and pronounce guilty as is customary, or are Japanese prosecutors so fair and accurate that they reach the point of godliness, resulting in everyone being found guilty at trial? Which of the two is it?

The comments section is full of strawmann arguments. All they say doesn't change the fact that it's wrong to think that you're doomed to be jailed just because you were arrested in Japan, which unbelievably, many people believed.

Foreigners who do not want to be arrested in Japan should not become criminals.
As long as you strictly follow Japanese laws, rules, etiquette, and customs, police officers will be kind to you.

Having done 5 weeks in the Azabu police station over a bullshit charge, you have no idea what you are talking about - once you enter the detention shadow world, you are super fucked