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Taking boiler-plate legalese at face-value isn't sustainable. It's just as bad for signal-to-noise ratio as autoplaying video ads. "We have not confirmed any i

• clnq 3y ago
  What would you want it to imply? This is simply a fact. I think it is a problem if a news outlet tries to imply something by selecting facts to paint a certain picture. This is the opposite of that. The facts that the outlet knows are the facts that it states.
• Zarathustra30 3y ago
  It does, actually. It implies the process has just started, which is pretty substantive.
• Belopolye 3y ago
  Given that the Japanese legal system is notorious for only proceeding with charges when the police/prosecutors feel they have an open and shut case (99.8% conviction rate, if I remember), I think they have more to go off of in this case than they’re revealing now. Admittedly this isn’t a normal criminal case, but I’d still expect to see a similar situation here.
  • dotnet00 3y ago
    I think that's more of a criminal case thing, while this is a civil matter.