Why is Japan’s prosecution rate so absurdly high at 99.8%?

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I’ve heard people say that lawyers only choose to prosecute cases that they know they might win, but isn’t that true for lawyers in basically any country, anywhere?

EDIT: I meant conviction rate in the title.

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You can be detained indefinitely without charges in Japan. It’s common that you are also interrogated endlessly until you give up and write a confession just to get it to stop. They will pressure you to write a confession. This helps the prosecution immensely.

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