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

Question

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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Answer 1

Please take a look at the wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate and see why; the US would have around the same conviction rate if measured the same.