Because they highlight the extreme injustice of the Japanese justice system, which has been documented in numerous cases and is also reflected in figures - stat

Because they highlight the extreme injustice of the Japanese justice system, which has been documented in numerous cases and is also reflected in figures - state prosecutors virtually never loose a case, people are kept without access to lawyers for weeks, etc. Some of this I already knew but I've learned a lot more from the Ghosn case.