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I lived in Japan for many years. Their system has many problems, yet they don't incarcerate as many people as the US.

• ekianjo 7y ago
  > yet they don't incarcerate as many people as the US. This is hardly the only comparison you should make. In terms of legal protection the US is much better than Japan when you are under arrest.
  • Larrikin 7y ago
    In my experience the biggest critics of Japan's legal system are people who are not used to being the minority in a country and not having the privileges they usually get. Japan is a wealthy country that doesn't feel any need to treat minorities special because of their money or country of origin like some other poorer countries. Being part of the majority in the US already makes you less likely to be arrested, murdered by a "scared" police officer and your also less likely of being convicted if you are arrested. The police in Japan love to stop and frisk foreigners on bicycles or who are drinking on the street, but their interactions are atleast respectful and there's no fear of something being planted on you or you being shot. The Japanese legal system doesn't tend to put people into it unless they believe they can convict. Ghoson was probably not going to get the most fair trial in Japan but he's shown he isn't above breaking the law so I don't know why the media is portraying him as some human rights activist against the Japanese system. The case the courts in Japan had against him just seems stronger. If he had been in the US or another western country he simply would have used his money to get a deal from the prosecution. When he realized he couldn't he used that money to escape and pay for media PR.