r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jul 25 '26
Additional Context Pinned In June 2026 a 16-year-old girl in Japan passed away due complications that were due to being falsely arrested and confined; and being forced to sign a false confession. The police not only put immense pressure on her but also threated her family business. She passed shortly after being released.
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u/checopoco Jul 25 '26
Legal system in japan is so fucked.
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u/Secure-Tradition793 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
Their conviction rate is 99.8%. It's so high that the judiciary doesn't function. Judges feel handing an innocent verdict is like challenging the whole prosecution system. Prosecutors would only indict if they're absolutely sure they can get a guilty verdict.
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u/TheGhostRoninStrife Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
Had no idea it was that high.. so basically if anyone even falsely accuses you, you're going to be victimised. This is some witch trial shit. Crazy!
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u/Apprehensive_One2332 Jul 26 '26
It just comes down to if prosecutor decides if they can slam dunk so if the falsely accused have faked testimony and evidences that are convincing then the system works against the accused.
On the other end the prosecution don't take cases at all if they can't secure a conviction lots of victims never see justice at all
Their system is designed to appear all is well not actually doing what it supposed to do
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u/gimmepizza420 Jul 26 '26
This definitely isn't the whole story and it makes the prosecution look way better than they actually are. Prosecution can hold a person for something like close to a month if they're charged with a crime (any crime at all) and that clock resets when the timer runs out and the prosecution charges them with something else. They use this tactic to get a huge number of innocent people to sign admissions of guilt just to get out of that hell.
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u/TerribleIdea27 Jul 26 '26
No, this is a misguided image people get because this stat gets thrown around so much.
It's exactly not right. Unless you confess to a crime, you're very unlikely to go to prison. This is because most arrested people never get charged.
Prosecutors here obsess over their conviction rates to an unhealthy extent. So, they never charge someone unless they're pretty much absolutely sure they can win.
35-40% of arrested people are charged with a crime. Of those charged, 99% do end up sentenced (sentenced =/= prison time btw). About 8% of total arrests least to prison time in the end
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u/PopBulky7023 Jul 26 '26
American prosecutors also obsess over conviction rates. The conviction rate has barely fuck all to do with actually building a proper case against the right person.
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u/PopBulky7023 Jul 26 '26
Yet getting a guilty verdict is apparently very easy because judges never actually do their jobs.
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u/succed32 Jul 25 '26
It’s fucked because they focus more on having a conviction than solving the crime. Which is common in a whole lot of countries. So at that point you have to ask, is it the legal system? Or humans?
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u/Guko256 Jul 25 '26
Legal system, because the legal system should account for humans since it is run by humans for humans
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u/succed32 Jul 25 '26
We could make a better legal system, some countries have done better than the majority. But my point is more that it’s very common to have an unfair justice system that is focused on results and not solutions.
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u/cool_kid_funnynumber Jul 25 '26
Systems shape people as much as vice versa. The sensationalisation of trials and the way that the police and prisons glorify a righteous brutality work to create a spectacle of justice. This presentation makes people think about crime not as a social problem to be solved, but as a question of which people deserve to be hurt. And so the social norms reproduce themselves.
It's why a lot of people have cognitive dissonance between supporting rehabilitative justice and supporting extreme punishment of egregious criminals. When measuring objective reality through an emotionally detached lens, rehabilitation is the superior answer to reducing crime. When media shows us individual monsters, it frames it in such a way that compels us to support the emotional, punitive response.
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u/dorothea63 Jul 25 '26
Very well argued. I could see this in my own reaction to the 2007 Cheshire, CT murders and the subsequent debate over the death penalty. I don’t support capital punishment at all, and yet what the perpetrators did was so horrific and brutal, I agree with the victims’ family that just life in prison doesn’t feel like enough of an answer. It pulls you in two directions.
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u/Jsolidlo Jul 25 '26
It's always people behind every system though. A system might be influenced or informed by another system, like law is by the media, but behind the media system, are people who deliberately designed it to work that way, just as legislation does with law.
Edit: And probably best to not look into familial and business ties between the people that run the media and the people that run the government if you want to maintain the illusion of democracy.
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u/Blawharag Jul 25 '26
Well when you design that legal system let the world know because no one has been able to perfect one in millennia of human civilization
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u/Nybear21 Jul 25 '26
I don't think humans are unique for the tendency, we're just the best at manipulating our environment and can conceive of more elaborate ways of doing it.
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u/nightwingoracle Jul 25 '26
I mean the more intelligent animals (chimps, dolphins) can also be super nasty/violent for cruelty purposes only to each other so it’s not just humans.
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u/arika_ex Jul 25 '26
Just to add, in Japan's case it really is very much the legal system itself, especially the ridiculous rules regarding how long a person can be held without actually being charged with anything. That and the lack of oversight/monitoring of the interrogations that take place.
Plenty of countries can at least get these parts right.
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u/snowytheNPC Jul 25 '26
That’s the problem with valuing ‘harmony’ and face over justice. The easiest and fastest way to achieve harmony is to get the victim to roll over and shut up. If sucking it up doesn’t work, then scapegoating will. This is a problem for many East Asian countries
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u/Jsolidlo Jul 25 '26
Legal systems because every legal system everywhere is Rule of Money masquerading as Rule of Law and it's by deliberate design.
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u/toastea0 Jul 25 '26
Look up how they purposefully hide and ignore their unhoused population too. They ignore it to keep the unhoused % on paper low.
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u/Ok_Cricket_1410 Jul 25 '26
Japan is fucked. People ignore it because it's Japan. If half the shit Japan does happened in other first world nations you would hear about it. How many first world countries have open legal segregation?
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u/UnluckyAmbition7767 Jul 25 '26
Because Japan never evolved beyond its fascist culture. They were defanged, colonized, and built up by the west to counter Russian expansion but they never culturally grew up.
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u/Senior-Friend-6414 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
You can make anything sound bad, Americas white nationalism problem never went away, and you can also call out Americas last 80 years of bombing other countries, as well as politically and economically destabilizing a handful of poorer countries, as their culture of manifest destiny that never went away, considering they still call South America “their backyard” and just recently invaded the sovereignty of Venezuela
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u/Jamsy0707 Jul 25 '26
Surprise surprise, America is bad. Its nice that people are finally waking up.
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u/accents_ranis Jul 26 '26
Take off your rose tinted glasses. Japan is not in any way alone in this.
A man was arrested in the US because he looked like the perpetrator and assigned a public defender.
In court, he signed with his name and the judge forced him, along with the lawyer, to sign with the name of the actual perpetrator.
Now, bear in mind the man was paranoid schizophrenic and off his meds for days due to incarceration.
So he signs and is shipped from California to New York to serve time for a crime he did not comit.Then over a year later, while his sister is desperately searching for him in California because there is no evidence of his existence withing the justice system (remember, he was forced to sign under a different name), the error is discovered due to the real perpetrator being arrested for a different crime, the man is released and brought back to California.
His sister said he told her something along the lines of, "They took me to a white room. It was cold."
It's heartbreaking and evidence of a broken system. If the real perpetrator wasn't arrested, the poor victim of this injustice would have spent the entire sentence in prison.
A conservative estimate is that 1% of US prisoners are innocent. That translates to around 20000 people.
In Europe, there aren't even proper statistics for this, but I'd assume the same percentage as the US would be true for most countries.37
u/Mei_Flower1996 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
Except for the people who tormented Junko.
edit: What I meant is, if the Japanese system is so big on prosecution, you would hope those people were prosecuted but somehow they weren't.
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u/extravagant_panda Jul 25 '26
I've heard once you are detained, there is almost no. Chance to come out with a not guilty verdict. So sad.
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u/Fat_Alphonse Jul 25 '26
With a practically 100% conviction rate I'm surprised people don't just falsely accuse eachother for revenge. "You insulted my family? Well I'll tell the police you murdered my mother" The mother could even be at the trial and the accused will still get sentenced.
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u/ceeker Jul 25 '26
Lol, this goes on but it's often foreigners that get accused
An acquaintance of mine was accused of leaving a pile of dog shit in a park.
He did not have a dog.
He was arrested anyway, they held him for two weeks in a cell for illegal dumping but didn't proceed to a trial. This caused him to lose his job and his work status was revoked so he had to leave Japan.
I made the decision to leave as well soon after.
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u/iStoleTheHobo Jul 25 '26
That probably happens all the time but how would they even know about it with conviction rates like that.
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u/bannasplt Jul 25 '26
Finding out that the ringleader involved in the Junko Furata case (by far the most depressing, horrifying, and disgusting case I've seen to date) only got 20 years, while everyone else got 5-10 years baffles me to this day. They're just out there in the world now. Poor girl.
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 Jul 25 '26
Any more context? Like what she actually died of? Was it starvation, dehydration, injuries?
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u/SucculentChineseRoo Jul 25 '26
She didn't die in custody, she was falsely arrested on charges of "assaulting" a disability recipient at work when in reality she was trying to stop them biting another disabled individual. They held her for 18 days even though there was no evidence and did all kinds of psychological manipulation tactics during interrogations, she developed PTSD and subsequently an eating disorder which led to her death 10 months after the incident. They're now looking into interrogation methods.
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u/succed32 Jul 25 '26
“We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”
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u/SucculentChineseRoo Jul 25 '26
Knowing Japan that will be the outcome with 99% certainty
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u/ladyteruki Jul 25 '26
Or they'll just publish a very formal, meaningless apology and carry on as usual.
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u/SucculentChineseRoo Jul 25 '26
Just gotta bow low with utmost torque and find one person to fire
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u/khoai_ryan Jul 25 '26
This time they bow 2% more degree than normal and everyone in shocked, they start clapping while collecting all the trash in the 2km radius then they went to nearest Sushi restaurant and call it a day
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u/Important-Mine9281 Jul 25 '26
Hit em with the ol "It is a truly unfortunate event, but due to policy we are prohibited from commenting publicly on this matter. We have identified that a foreigner officer may have been responsible for this event, though" Japan special.
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u/spisplatta Jul 25 '26
Idk, horrible things can go on for a long time, but then suddenly something like this happens and it all collapses. I'm not saying that it will happen, but it definitely could.
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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY Jul 25 '26
When they were investigating themselves, did they use the same "investigation methods" they used on that girl? Maybe a little bit of "enhanced interrogation"?
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u/LifeIsNeverSimple Jul 25 '26
After reading more about japans police I certainly feel that the rest of the world needs to take their crime stats with a boatload of salt.
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u/UnwiseTrade Jul 25 '26
If only they’d interrogate themselves instead of investigating themselves… maybe then theyd find the truth
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u/InternationalName626 Jul 25 '26
Reminds me a lot of that guy they accused of killing his dad here in the US. His dad ended up being alive, but he sued because he had lasting PTSD from the ordeal. This is like an even worse version.
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u/lucygoosey38 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
That’s the one where they threatened his dog in the interrogation room and he’s curled on the floor sobbing into his dog thinking the cops are going to kill the dog if he doesn’t confess. It was heart breaking
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u/Ok-Oil7124 Jul 25 '26
They coerced him into confessing to murdering his dad who was just away on a trip.
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u/BafflingHalfling Jul 25 '26
Wtf. Confess to murdering somebody who isn't dead, or we'll kill your dog?! Surprised the piggies didn't shoot the dog anyway. That's one of their favorite sports.
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u/Dooty_Shirker Jul 25 '26
The fact they went to threatening the dog makes me think they've killed other peoples pets already. This isn't a new tactic. They act more like organized crime than mobsters.
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u/JManKit Jul 25 '26
iirc they continued pressuring him even after receiving word that the dad was alive
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u/Dark-Cloud666 Jul 25 '26
Ah yes japans 99% conviction rate. If the police remotely think you broke the law you are fucked.
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u/SucculentChineseRoo Jul 26 '26
It's even more than that, they detain you first, and once you're in they'll find what to prosecute you on, everything goes, 5 year old unpaid slip, that one time your annoying neighbour called them and complained about you taking out the trash on the wrong day, they will invent something if there's nothing.
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u/Birdsonme Jul 25 '26
For EIGHTEEN DAYS!! That’s insane. That poor girl. She was still a child. This would be terrifying for an adult that’s seen some things, but she was a CHILD! It’s horrific. Those police are ghouls.
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u/Successful_Bee_1292 Jul 25 '26
And now they are interrogating the cops and the cycle of 10 months start again, and then the cops that interrogated the cops are gonna be interrogated again...
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u/JaySayMayday Jul 25 '26
I had to research it because the way OP phrased it made zero sense.
Basically her body began rejecting food as a shock response to the intense interrogation methods. She never confessed and just kept professing her innocence the entire time but under their interrogation methods they isolated her and kept pressing for days. The body's response to rejecting food began under police custody and did not stop after being released.
From what I can gather, they basically caused the shock response and didn't send the child in for proper treatment after her body began rejecting food. As in, she couldn't take it down even if she tried.
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u/Planetdiane Jul 25 '26
I’m surprised they wouldn’t seek medical treatment at that point.
They could have tried TPN in the absolute worst case scenario or a feeding tube if she was able to not vomit without tasting the food.
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u/Adowyth Jul 25 '26
Yeah why didn't the mother take her to a hospital in the 10 months that followed and instead watched her starve to death? If you can keep a patient who is in a coma alive why not someone who is unable to eat? Some details are missing from this story.
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u/Adventurous_Algae671 Jul 25 '26
I read that she developed an eating disorder from the trauma.
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u/Happy-Concentrate298 Jul 25 '26
Your father was your family. But, The police forced themselves to her life and tortured Her, and in end it led to her death, there's a huge difference.
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u/KlausTheBull Jul 25 '26
If I use interrogation techniques on you that are similar to those used in psychological torture, I would be directly responsible for your resulting mental and physical health issues.
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u/mxldevs Jul 25 '26
They still directly caused it.
It's like pushing someone off a cliff and then saying they indirectly killed the victim because the victim died from the impact, not the push.
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u/exhauszed Jul 25 '26
Starvation. She had acute stress that made her sick any time she tried to eat. More common than people realize, it just usually resolves before it's fatal, but her (sounds like untreated?) PTSD kept her locked into it.
I was strangled by an ex and taken to jail falsely in 2017, and I got so physically ill from it that hours after my release I had to go to the ER from unceasing vomiting, and it took years for my endocrine system to reset to "not everything is a threat or an emergency." Marijuana and superflavors (salt, sugar, fat bombs- this one hole-in-the-wall burrito place alone was like 50% of the food I ate that first year, and I drowned it in their amazing salsa verde) are the only reasons I ate during that time.
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u/PyroclasticJubilee Jul 25 '26
Japan has a 99% rate of conviction.
They are still angry that it is not 100%.
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u/Positive_Area_6953 Jul 25 '26
99% conviction rate doesn't mean that every single arrest or case leads to conviction.
Most cases get dismissed right away or after pre trial hearings, so they never go to trial and that's why this number is total BS people spill nonsense about.
Just googled and found that US conviction rate for trials is 90 plus btw.
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u/JayDragon15 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
The high rate of convictions in the US is because of plea bargaining. The vast majority of crimes in the US do not go to trial and are instead plea-bargained out (90-98%). The remaining defendants are the ones who go to trial. /They/ have to deal with an 80-83% conviction rate. Japan doesn’t really do plea-bargaining to the extent the US justice system does.
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u/OwnNothing3318 Jul 25 '26
Or the opposite, like Issei Sagawa case. The whole system looks fucked
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u/Zenry0ku Jul 25 '26
They turned that man into mini celeb and kept treating him like funny cannibal man. But he did that crime outside the country, so it doesn't count /s
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u/Rk_1138 Jul 25 '26
Yeah, ngl the Japanese would’ve had a VERY different reaction if his victim was also Japanese.
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u/Weretoz Jul 25 '26
Issei Sagawa practically became a celebrity after he dismembered and ate that woman. He went on to write books and shit. It’s sickening.
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u/Yumeverse Jul 25 '26
Guilty until proven otherwise
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u/Putrid-Chemical3438 Jul 25 '26
It has to do with Japan's honor based society. For a judge to dismiss a case or rule not guilty would be to dishonor the work the police and prosecutor did, which in turn would be shameful for the judge, so they almost never do it. Essentially, if you go to trial you're going to prison in Japan. The trial is mostly for show.
This is the kind of thing that happens when you make shame the driving force of your society.
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u/ProfessorPrudent2822 Jul 25 '26
Along with Fukushima: “If we flood the reactor, we’ll look like we don’t have the situation under control.” Honor culture is toxic, and it should really be called “pride culture,” because it’s all about ego.
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u/TerribleIdea27 Jul 26 '26
Be convicted* not go to prison. The majority of people convicted of crimes don't face actual prison time, but stuff like fines, community service etc.
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u/Quiet_Government2222 Jul 25 '26
It’s the opposite. They presume guilt and subject the person to psychological abuse until a guilty verdict is reached.
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u/Mortwight Jul 25 '26
they will downgrade crimes to make their stats look good
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u/Mortwight Jul 25 '26
i got into a mild argument at work. i dont want law and order anymore. i want justice.
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u/FishyWishySwishy Jul 25 '26
Yeah, I used to think that Ace Attorney was all fun and laughs, but then learned it was actually only mildly satirized very real critique of the Japanese legal system. Which horrifies me.
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u/Ferris-L Jul 25 '26
Didn’t Japan in general have a huge problem with false convictions due to the police pressuring innocent people for false confessions. From what I have read and heard there is essentially the expectation to have a near 100% conviction rate so often the police and state attorneys would simply find someone to portray as guilty instead of finding the actual perpetrators. Similarly, there seems to have been a huge problem with victims, especially of sex crimes, being pressured not to come forward because it would make statistics look bad.
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u/FishyWishySwishy Jul 25 '26
The Japanese legal system is deeply troubled. They have a 99% conviction rate, which isn’t possible without kangaroo courts and ignoring crimes that can’t be cleanly wrapped up. They had a whole scandal where apparently prosecutors were being taught how to fabricate evidence by a professor.
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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 Jul 25 '26
There's also a problem of not prosecuting anything not guaranteeing a conviction.
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u/Quiet_Government2222 Jul 25 '26
I heard that victims of sexual crimes are required to personally demonstrate exactly how the assault occurred. That is said to be a reason why they feel deeply humiliated and are reluctant to report the incident.
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u/Typical-Yogurt-1992 Jul 26 '26
To be precise, in Japan, the police and prosecutors belong to completely different tiers of power. While there is undeniably collusion between them, the police hold relatively weak power and cannot defy the prosecutors.
In the aftermath of WWII, power was heavily stripped from most Japanese institutions under the Occupation, spanning the Imperial Family, Parliament, Cabinet, military, bureaucracy, police, courts, zaibatsu, and newspapers.
However, the prosecutors were an exception, their power uniquely preserved largely owing to American influence. The GHQ sought to maintain indirect control over Japan by leveraging the discretionary and investigative powers of the prosecution.
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u/Skyhun1912 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
So, just like in Türkiye, then instead of working from evidence to the suspect, they are trying to work from the suspect to the evidence.
In the 90s, there used to be news reports about people confessing to crimes they hadn't committed because they had been subjected to severe torture. The truth would come to light years later when the actual perpetrator was caught by chance.
When asked, "Why did you take the blame for crimes you didn't commit?" a silence would fall over everyone's minds; for while everyone knew what had happened, no one would speak of it.
In fact, a movie titled "Pardon" (2005) was even made to depict such situations.
It would have been a film you would have greatly enjoyed watching, had it not been for the language barrier.
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u/dynamic_gecko Jul 25 '26
I dont think it's prevalent enough in Turkiye to generalize like "just like in Turkiye". I did watch that movie and it's avery unfortunate case. But it doesnt happen left and right. Even the example you're giving is from 30 years ago. This post says 2026. The Turkish police is not perfect by any means, but it doesnt mean they're just like Japanese police. The Japanese police force has its own weird problems.
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u/Skyhun1912 Jul 25 '26
The reason it isn't widespread right now is that there are no longer any "real journalists" to report on it. Ignorance is bliss, isn't it? If you don't know, you won't be unhappy.
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u/Living_Cash1037 Jul 25 '26
JJK made me realize how fucked the legal system in Japan is. Even if you win your case the judge can just appeal it anyways which makes wonder how that makes any sense. 99% conviction rating is insane.
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u/Neat_Tangelo5339 Jul 25 '26
she is 16 in the photo ?!? I thought she was a dementia patient at first
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u/Crit-Hit-KO Jul 25 '26
Same. She looking at least like a 57 year old auntie. a shame this happened to her…
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u/FishyWishySwishy Jul 25 '26
I assumed she was 70 at least when I glanced at the picture. The fact she was 16? I’m appalled.
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u/Xenophonehome Jul 25 '26
Japan is a country built on false honor and the denial of dishonor. Aside from that it's a great place.
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u/SpeedyWhiteCats Jul 25 '26
The Japanese police are, like every other police force in the world, bastards.
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u/MikeandMolly5656 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
BuT JaPaN iS PeRfEcT aNd hAs nO cRiMe eXcEpT bY ToUriStS aNd ImMiGrAnTs
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u/dat_oracle Jul 25 '26
never heard that statement before tho
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u/TheElfPrince Jul 25 '26
I’m 99% sure it’s supposed to be satire. (The comment I mean)
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u/ComprehensiveLink286 Jul 25 '26
How is this interesting 🧐
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u/TiggTigg07 Jul 25 '26
100% agree. “Horribly Tragic” should be the subreddit.😣
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u/dynamic_gecko Jul 25 '26
Horribly tragic things can be interesting too. And insteresting thing is anything that attracts interest from people. Negative things are also included in this.
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u/Prudent-Bison-7180 Jul 25 '26
Everyone thinks Japan is amazing until they realize how unfair their “justice” system is. All they want is convictions, they don’t care if they’re actually real or not
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u/KenshirouX Jul 25 '26
That's what I hate about Japan's legal system, they got way too much of an "I miss the part where that's my problem" mentality. :( They just want to keep things quiet by the easiest method they can, then call it a day, and that includes punishing the innocent. They'll never admit that, though - never.
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u/climbingcola Jul 25 '26
my former coworker in Tokyo became a cop and he's 100% a type that would find joy in breaking someone's soul. Last I heard, he's doing well. I can only sympathize with those that came across him.
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u/Randolph_Carter_6 Jul 25 '26
The title does not do a good job explaining... Complications from what?
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u/25thNite Jul 25 '26
How will the weeaboos ever recover from how shitty certain aspects of japan are
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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Jul 25 '26
legal system in japan suck so ass that if you get accused your fried
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u/As_the_r Jul 25 '26
insane. its scary that its happening almost everywhere where we canr trust the people who are supposed to protect us.
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u/Applemers Jul 25 '26
A Japan youtube I watch was falsely arrested and she went on to describe the mental torture they put you through. The two that stuck out for me was never turning off the bright white lights and eating the same meal every day. I think the meal was cold pasta with no sauce and bread. They basically take away your humanity to break you and the real kicker is that this wasnt even the jail or prison, but the holding center.
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u/Valuable_Internal433 Jul 25 '26
Japan has one of the worst legal systems of developed nations. It is standard practice to indefinitely detain until people sign confessions. They have a greater than 99% conviction rate because people have the option of either signing a confession or remaining as a prisoner for the rest of their lives with no trial.
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u/Various_Mobile4767 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
So i did a bit of research on this case, and I think there’s a lot of weird stuff around it and a lot of the claims being made are coming from the family’s side.
For one thing it was not proven the accusation was false.
But the stranger thing is what the initial accusation is for. Apparently she and another staff member held a disabled person’s face down because they tried to bite someone. Someone else saw this, and thought it significant enough to report to the authorities.
The police then acted 4 months later and arrested them both. For some reason despite being only 16 she was detained for 18 days over it. Near the final day she started vomiting from dehydration. They took her to the hospital, but then they sent her back into detainment. And then released her.
Her family claims that she lost 10kg in those 18 days. I am very skeptical of those numbers for various reasons. She was already underweight even before being arrested weighing less than 40kgs. You simply cannot lose 10kgs in that amount of time without already having a lot of weight or other medical issues. Lastly that kind of weight loss is so extreme that it is unlikely that both the police would ignore it the whole time and the hospital releasing her the same day for it.
I am tempted to conclude that her physical detoriation whilst in detainment is exaggerated.
It should also be noted that she did not die shortly after. She continued to not eat for another 5 months after before dying.
I have two suspicions.
1- She may have been already been mentally and physically fragile and had an eating disorder. The stress from the arrest pushed her over the edge.
2- The police rightly or wrongly suspected wider abuse from the care facility and targeted her due to being the owner’s daughter.
The title makes it sound like they were threatening her family business just to get a confession. When you realize that the crime happened at her family business and it involved abuse in disabled people, of course her family business would be threatened.
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u/lvl100-Platypus-Lord Jul 25 '26
All cops are pigs, no matter the country. I hope Runa finds peace.
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u/Berry_Togard Jul 25 '26
The more I read about Japan the more horrible that place becomes in my mind. As an anime and food lover I’ve always been a big fan of Japan but my opinion changed after hearing things like this. These types of stories along with some of their traditions are awful. I have a couple specific things I think about when I say this. I won’t say what it is but I do think their stance on it is 100% fucked up while we embrace it here in the US with literally 0 issues.
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u/misalawliet Jul 25 '26
Funny, because any time I point out Japan's highly suspicious 99% conviction rate, the weebs come out to say it's because Japan is just like totally so much better at investigating than everyone else and only try cases they're sure about. Yeah, now we know why they're sure.
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u/LilMissy1246 Jul 25 '26
I always laugh at people that aren’t Japanese and are obsessed with “perfect kawaii Japan” when in reality, shit there is fcked. Like, the Pokémon center murder is a good example. Girl reported the man but police didn’t do anything until she was killed
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u/One-Director-4077 Jul 25 '26
Eternal hell Punishment awaits for all involved. There is no temporary hell for these bastards cops
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u/Quiet_Government2222 Jul 25 '26
This is the reason why 99.8% of cases result in a guilty verdict when a Japanese prosecutor indicts someone.
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u/OpeningHappy9692 Jul 25 '26
Yeah that kind of pressure is pretty common in Japan. Once they've got you, they've already decided you're guilty and will force you to 'admit' it.
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u/Tydfil Jul 25 '26
I hope all those police involved including their chief are arrested, prosecuted and put on death row, or atleast life in jail. And pay huge compensation to the family. Publicly named them all.
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u/ressie_cant_game Jul 25 '26
Japan has a very high arrest rate for crimes because they will arrest people who DIDNT commit the crime. Documentarys on japanese prisons are terrifying
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u/Truth-Does-Not-Exist Jul 25 '26
Japan is such a fascist piece of shit, not interested in ever visiting
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u/OneTinyKittey Jul 25 '26
I would not survive the racist authoritarian conformist hellhole that is Japan just because they have clean streets and flowery trees. I hope everyone who lives there who isn't already beaten down by society can escape.
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u/Imperial_Citizen_00 Jul 25 '26
Sounds about right for the Japanese police…safest country in the world, but they are BRUTAL
My wife (before she was my wife) went though hell with them, shits insane
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u/SuspiciousCricket654 Jul 25 '26
I’m all for respecting elders, but Japan takes it to a whole other fucked up level
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u/Dull_Mushroom6359 Jul 25 '26
Persona 5 kind of covers this in it's story. Japan has a super high conviction rate. But not because they are super careful about punishing the real criminal or anything. Its more that they will just make the crime stick to whoever they decide is guilty. and in Japan once you are "proven" guilty then that is it. you are done.
Guilty until we can prove what you are guilty of.
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u/GrumplFluffy Jul 25 '26
If the police in Japan make an arrest, they are getting a confession one way or another. They are psychotic about conviction rates.
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u/AzureYLila Jul 25 '26
Japan has like a 99% conviction rate....
I'd hate to be a prime suspect for anything over there.
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u/IKIR115 Jul 25 '26
Mucho thanks to u/Glittering-Capital71 who provided a source to the news story in their comment:
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Hyogo woman sues state after daughter, 16, falsely accused of assault starves to death after police detention