The US federal government has a similarly high conviction rate, especially considering the number of plea deals (90% of defendants plead guilty). https://www.pe

The US federal government has a similarly high conviction rate, especially considering the number of plea deals (90% of defendants plead guilty). https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/06/11/only-2-of-federal-criminal-defendants-go-to-trial-and-most-who-do-are-found-guilty/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/06/11/only-2-of.... I went to Wikipedia to find more information and it seems that your characterization of it as very unjust is a common misconception: > According to Bruce Aronson of New York University School of Law, Japan's conviction rate is misleading because it is the rate at which defendants admit guilt in the cases they are charged with. According to him, if the method of calculating the conviction rate in Japan is applied to the United States, the conviction rate of federal defendants in the United States in 2018 was also over 99%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Japan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_J...