Those conviction rates are due to how they ignore the rights of defendants as you said and also how they browbeat suspects into confessing to doing something they didn't do. The accounts of that browbeating I've read/watched about are inhumane.
Their society has aspects to it that are suppressive and don't tolerate younger people questioning older people.
Violence through other means like knives seems to be increasing (correct me on that if I'm wrong).
The work hours they put force employees to go through is apparently taking it's toll on their society.
I'm predicting we'll see more issues in their society. I'd be glad to be wrong but they do have social issues to take care of just like most other countries.
Those conviction rates are due to how they ignore the rights of defendants as you said and also how they browbeat suspects into confessing to doing something they didn't do.
Sounds a lot like how I hear it's done in the US, a la "plea bargains".
Right, so I did a quick bit of tapping over here and found this:
The criminal justice system of Japan has a conviction rate that exceeds 99% (Note that it includes guilty plea cases.[1]), which has been attributed to low prosecutorial budgets impelling understaffed prosecutors to present judges with only the most obviously guilty defendants.[1]
Now, I'm no expect on the matter, perhaps neither are you.
However,I would appreciate more context than your comment provides because the way you've framed it makes it seem like an obviously bad thing, which, on closer inspect, may not be the case.
In 2013/2014, 63% of all cases completed in adult criminal court resulted in a finding of guilt. This proportion has remained relatively stable over the past ten years. In 2013/2014, 32% of all completed cases were stayed or withdrawn, and 4% of cases were acquitted. The remaining 1% of completed cases resulted in another type of decision, such as the accused was found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder.
Prison rape is kind of a meme in the United States, but apparently about 2% to 4% of inmates are sexually assaulted annually here[1]. I'd say that prison conditions are pretty horrible in the U.S. too.
To the US. Mental illness is extremely common in Japan due to have to maintain a kneeling posture for most waking hours for the duration of incarceration.
