How is it possible that Japan has a 99% conviction rate?
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Jake Adelstein talks about this in Tokyo Vice, basically things aren’t officially registered as a crime unless the police and prosecutors believe they can secure a conviction. Until then it’s still a crime, but the police haven’t officially classified it that way.
It’s like how the US has won every war they’re involved in, but lost a significant number of “conflicts.”
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