For anyone interested in a correct translation, the Japanese reads: "Its purpose is recidivism prevention and rehabilitation for youth offenders; the usual pro

For anyone interested in a correct translation, the Japanese reads: "Its purpose is recidivism prevention and rehabilitation for youth offenders; the usual process leading up to a decision is: Notice or report of the fact of the youth crime to the family court > Investigation by the family court investigating officer (the "Investigator") and/or other parties > Judgment based on the results of the investigation > Protective measures or a disposition for rehabilitation, as necessary." >Just to point out here... the text on the front page of Wikipedia tends to be very neutral, matter-of-fact, and well written This is true in general, though perhaps not always of Japanese wikipedia, and certainly not on legal topics. I have no love lost with machine translation (hard agree on naniwaduni's comment about "insidious failure modes"), but there are very few humans who would be able to translate this particular excerpt effectively. Legal translation is my job and I still found this sentence to be reasonably challenging.