It's neither dark, nor a secret. The conviction rate was explained in detail to everyone reporting for duty within Japan, probably since 1946, and definitely since the 1980s.
We were explicitly told that the prosecutor would win, because for the jury to find against the state would cause the prosecutor to lose face, which was culturally repugnant to Japanese.
QED: 99.8% conviction rate for all arrests.
In prison in Japan, you do hard labor, all day. They feed you fish heads and rice. Life expectancy for convicts: 5 years. Life expectancy for foreigners in Japanese prisons: 2 years. That's because the Japanese prisoners hate foreigners, so they steal your fish heads and rice, and you starve. Average felony sentence: 10 years. Thus any conviction was effectively a death sentence.
Crime problem: solved. Solution: Don't break the law in Japan.
Two guys got 5 years for stiffing a cab fare, and running into the barracks without paying. Battalion formation the next morning, two MPs, two Japanese police, and the cabbie walked up and down the ranks. He pointed to the two offenders. The two he pointed out left with the police. They never went home.
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It's neither dark, nor a secret.
The conviction rate was explained in detail to everyone reporting for duty within Japan, probably since 1946, and definitely since the 1980s.
We were explicitly told that the prosecutor would win, because for the jury to find against the state would cause the prosecutor to lose face, which was culturally repugnant to Japanese.
QED: 99.8% conviction rate for all arrests.
In prison in Japan, you do hard labor, all day.
They feed you fish heads and rice.
Life expectancy for convicts: 5 years.
Life expectancy for foreigners in Japanese prisons: 2 years.
That's because the Japanese prisoners hate foreigners, so they steal your fish heads and rice, and you starve.
Average felony sentence: 10 years.
Thus any conviction was effectively a death sentence.
Crime problem: solved.
Solution: Don't break the law in Japan.
Two guys got 5 years for stiffing a cab fare, and running into the barracks without paying.
Battalion formation the next morning, two MPs, two Japanese police, and the cabbie walked up and down the ranks.
He pointed to the two offenders.
The two he pointed out left with the police.
They never went home.
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