If AlJazeera didn't sometimes broadcast Islamist propaganda, they'd honestly be my favourite news network. They produce some truly excellent journalistic pieces on lesser-known travesties around the world.
I haven't seen the whole video yet, but I will say that the justice system in Japan has always been a curiosity of mine. I feel that there's a confluence of factors leading to it, and forced confessions, a matter I've heard of before, definitely seems to be part of it.
Thanks for the share.
So: you can be held for weeks without charge, when you are being interrogated you do not get a lawyer in the room, and you can be interrogated for 10+ hours a day.
That is legitimately some tyrannical bullshit.
Funnily enough I'm living in Japan and it says the video is unavailable.
Probably just licenscing, still funny though.
I was able to watch it just fine?
Anyways, this is pretty much why the Phoenix Wright series was made, IIRC. Perhaps exaggerated, but to show how bad the system is. The media is in on it too, whenever somebody is arrested for something, they report on it like they are 100% guilty.
I do not know how many times I have said this, but as much as I personally love living here more than anywhere else, Japan is not as great of a country as it looks to the outside world.
This is literally how the Cardassian legal system works in star trek.
This is actually the reason why the United States tends to refuse surrender of any soldiers caught committing crimes. It's easier to run them through a military court, over just handing them over to authorities in Okinawa and the like, and have that soldier forced to confess too something they may have not done.
Weird. It plays on Youtube, but not embedded. And I'm definitely with you on that last point as a foreigner here.
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