No I understand completely what you were saying ... but what this person was saying was that it's option #2. My replywas that if that is true that they only pur

No I understand completely what you were saying ... but what this person was saying was that it's option #2. My replywas that if that is true that they only pursue cases that they are >99% sure they can convict on then there would be a sizeable backlog of crimes with no form of resolution as a result of this. From what I've read I suspected it was option #3 (i.e. what you said) but then I'm a complete outsider, having only been to Japan a couple of times so I don't know how valid my gut feeling is here.