The first article has a couple of anecdotes, and a statement that there are reforms in progress. The second just states “little to do with the assumption that

The first article has a couple of anecdotes, and a statement that there are reforms in progress. The second just states “little to do with the assumption that prosecutors only choose cases they are confident they can win” but doesn’t do anything to back up that claim with data. It just discusses aspects of the law that are different in Japan/the US. Would be more interesting to refute the academic work on this: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/468111 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/468111 This article posted elsewhere also seems interesting: https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/carlos-ghosn-and-japans-99-conviction-rate/ https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/carlos-ghosn-and-japans-99-c... So, does anyone have anything a bit more detailed and systematic than the above? Also curious about treatment in Japanese prisons as compared to the US/elsewhere.