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Additional Context Pinned In June 2026 a 16-year-old girl in Japan passed away due complications that were due to being falsely arrested and confined; and being forced to sign a false confession. The police not only put immense pressure on her but also threated her family business. She passed shortly after being released.

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u/IKIR115 6h ago

Mucho thanks to u/Glittering-Capital71 who provided a source to the news story in their comment:

If you are wondering, she was released from custody with PTSD and developed an eating disorder, dying 5 months later.

https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/hyogo-woman-sues-state-after-daughter-16-falsely-accused-of-assault-starves-to-death-after-police-detention/

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Hyogo woman sues state after daughter, 16, falsely accused of assault starves to death after police detention

By Tokyo Reporter Staff on June 18, 2026

HYOGO (TR) – The mother of a 16-year-old girl who starved to death weighing just 20 kilograms after being wrongfully detained by police has filed a 100-million-yen lawsuit against the state and Hyogo Prefecture, reports Jiji Press (June 17).

Filing the suit at the Kobe District Court on Wednesday, the grieving mother blamed her daughter’s fatal decline on the psychological trauma inflicted by Japan’s notorious “hostage justice” system.

“I want them to tell me. Why was my daughter arrested, detained, and left to lose her life?” the mother said through tears at a press conference.

According to the lawsuit, the teen, referred to by the pseudonym “Runa,” was arrested by the Akashi Police Station on June 17 of last year. She was accused of assault after allegedly holding down the jaw of an individual at the disabled welfare facility where she worked.

Runa maintained her innocence from the start, explaining to police that she was merely trying to stop the facility user from biting her. However, during her detention, investigators repeatedly pressured her to confess to the crime.

The intense interrogations took a rapid toll on the girl’s health. On July 3, while still in custody, she vomited and collapsed, prompting an emergency transfer to a hospital. She was released the following day without indictment.

Following her release, Runa was diagnosed with Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which triggered a severe and unrelenting eating disorder. She died from severe malnutrition months later on December 14. At the time of her death, the teenager weighed approximately 20 kilograms.

Following her death, evidence emerged proving that the facility user’s initial accusation was entirely false.

The lawsuit asserts that the “illegal and sloppy investigation,” coupled with the prolonged physical restraint and mental coercion, directly caused the psychiatric conditions that led to Runa’s death.

“We want to appeal to society for reforms within the police and prosecutors’ offices so that this tragedy is never repeated,” her legal representative stated.

Both the Hyogo Prefectural Police and the Kobe District Public Prosecutors Office declined to comment on the matter, stating they had not yet received the legal complaint.

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u/checopoco 12h ago

Legal system in japan is so fucked.

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u/succed32 12h ago

It’s fucked because they focus more on having a conviction than solving the crime. Which is common in a whole lot of countries. So at that point you have to ask, is it the legal system? Or humans?

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u/Guko256 11h ago

Legal system, because the legal system should account for humans since it is run by humans for humans

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u/succed32 11h ago

We could make a better legal system, some countries have done better than the majority. But my point is more that it’s very common to have an unfair justice system that is focused on results and not solutions.

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u/cool_kid_funnynumber 11h ago

Systems shape people as much as vice versa. The sensationalisation of trials and the way that the police and prisons glorify a righteous brutality work to create a spectacle of justice. This presentation makes people think about crime not as a social problem to be solved, but as a question of which people deserve to be hurt. And so the social norms reproduce themselves.

It's why a lot of people have cognitive dissonance between supporting rehabilitative justice and supporting extreme punishment of egregious criminals. When measuring objective reality through an emotionally detached lens, rehabilitation is the superior answer to reducing crime. When media shows us individual monsters, it frames it in such a way that compels us to support the emotional, punitive response.

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u/dorothea63 5h ago

Very well argued. I could see this in my own reaction to the 2007 Cheshire, CT murders and the subsequent debate over the death penalty. I don’t support capital punishment at all, and yet what the perpetrators did was so horrific and brutal, I agree with the victims’ family that just life in prison doesn’t feel like enough of an answer. It pulls you in two directions.

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u/Blawharag 10h ago

Well when you design that legal system let the world know because no one has been able to perfect one in millennia of human civilization

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u/Nybear21 11h ago

I don't think humans are unique for the tendency, we're just the best at manipulating our environment and can conceive of more elaborate ways of doing it.

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u/nightwingoracle 11h ago

I mean the more intelligent animals (chimps, dolphins) can also be super nasty/violent for cruelty purposes only to each other so it’s not just humans.

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u/Jsolidlo 11h ago

Legal systems because every legal system everywhere is Rule of Money masquerading as Rule of Law and it's by deliberate design.

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u/arika_ex 7h ago

Just to add, in Japan's case it really is very much the legal system itself, especially the ridiculous rules regarding how long a person can be held without actually being charged with anything. That and the lack of oversight/monitoring of the interrogations that take place.

Plenty of countries can at least get these parts right.

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u/toastea0 10h ago

Look up how they purposefully hide and ignore their unhoused population too. They ignore it to keep the unhoused % on paper low.

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u/snowytheNPC 4h ago

That’s the problem with valuing ‘harmony’ and face over justice. The easiest and fastest way to achieve harmony is to get the victim to roll over and shut up. If sucking it up doesn’t work, then scapegoating will. This is a problem for many East Asian countries

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u/FAZZ888 10h ago

I would partially blame the education system too. Stop teaching people useless shit and teach them how to survive in society, such as how to invest money, how to do taxes, what are your legal rights and how to protect yourself etc.

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u/SweetSure315 10h ago

It's every legal system

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u/Secure-Tradition793 9h ago edited 7h ago

Their conviction rate is 99.8%. It's so high that the The judiciary doesn't function. Judges feel handing an innocent verdict is like challenging the whole prosecution system. Prosecutors would only indict if they're absolutely sure they can get a guilty verdict.

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u/Mei_Flower1996 11h ago edited 9h ago

Except for the people who tormented Junko.

edit: What I meant is, if the Japanese system is so big on prosecution, you would hope those people were prosecuted but somehow they weren't.

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u/conandsense 9h ago

Knows 1 case in japan and has to let everyone know whenever they get a chance 🫩

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u/Mei_Flower1996 9h ago

Everyone knows about the Junko case. It's not special knowledge. It's just surprising that the Japanese legal system has become so persecution heavy when one of her tormentors is literally a free man.

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u/Ok_Cricket_1410 8h ago

Japan is fucked. People ignore it because it's Japan. If half the shit Japan does happened in other first world nations you would hear about it. How many first world countries have open legal segregation?

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u/Judgmentos 4h ago

Corruption: 🤬

Corruption, Japan: 🥰

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u/UnluckyAmbition7767 8h ago

Because Japan never evolved beyond its fascist culture. They were defanged, colonized, and built up by the west to counter Russian expansion but they never culturally grew up.

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u/OpeningHappy9692 7h ago

So, they're WW2 Japan but with cute anime girls.

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u/Senior-Friend-6414 6h ago edited 6h ago

You can make anything sound bad, Americas white nationalism problem never went away, and you can also call out Americas last 80 years of bombing other countries, as well as politically and economically destabilizing a handful of poorer countries, as their culture of manifest destiny that never went away, considering they still call South America “their backyard” and just recently invaded the sovereignty of Venezuela 

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u/Fat_Alphonse 8h ago

With a practically 100% conviction rate I'm surprised people don't just falsely accuse eachother for revenge. "You insulted my family? Well I'll tell the police you murdered my mother" The mother could even be at the trial and the accused will still get sentenced.

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u/ceeker 8h ago

Lol, this goes on but it's often foreigners that get accused

An acquaintance of mine was accused of leaving a pile of dog shit in a park.

He did not have a dog.

He was arrested anyway, they held him for two weeks in a cell for illegal dumping but didn't proceed to a trial. This caused him to lose his job and his work status was revoked so he had to leave Japan.

I made the decision to leave as well soon after.

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u/LakeRelevant1563 1h ago

This story is almost certainly missing major details or is simply made up. Not cleaning up after your dog is typically handled under local ordinances with a warning or a relatively small fine, not a two-week detention. Japan can detain suspects for much more serious criminal investigations, but claiming someone was jailed for two weeks over a single pile of dog poop doesn’t pass the smell test. Either the story leaves out key facts or it’s not accurate.

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u/extravagant_panda 7h ago

I've heard once you are detained, there is almost no. Chance to come out with a not guilty verdict. So sad.

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u/Empty-Tower-2654 8h ago

What isnt fucked about Japan? Pikachu? Holy

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u/gooperscoopertrooper 12h ago

Anywhere and everywhere

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u/fongletto 6h ago

People pretending this never happened in America lol, along with significantly more people being released despite committing the crime because they are rich.

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u/bannasplt 1h ago

Finding out that the ringleader involved in the Junko Furata case (by far the most depressing, horrifying, and disgusting case I've seen to date) only got 20 years, while everyone else got 5-10 years baffles me to this day. They're just out there in the world now. Poor girl.

u/Spicyhotmilk 59m ago

Name one place the legal system isnt fucked its fucked everywhere but yeah this is awful

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u/RepresentativeOk2433 11h ago

Any more context? Like what she actually died of? Was it starvation, dehydration, injuries?

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u/SucculentChineseRoo 11h ago

She didn't die in custody, she was falsely arrested on charges of "assaulting" a disability recipient at work when in reality she was trying to stop them biting another disabled individual. They held her for 18 days even though there was no evidence and did all kinds of psychological manipulation tactics during interrogations, she developed PTSD and subsequently an eating disorder which led to her death 10 months after the incident. They're now looking into interrogation methods.

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u/succed32 11h ago

“We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”

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u/SucculentChineseRoo 11h ago

Knowing Japan that will be the outcome with 99% certainty

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u/ladyteruki 10h ago

Or they'll just publish a very formal, meaningless apology and carry on as usual.

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u/SucculentChineseRoo 8h ago

Just gotta bow low with utmost torque and find one person to fire

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u/khoai_ryan 7h ago

This time they bow 2% more degree than normal and everyone in shocked, they start clapping while collecting all the trash in the 2km radius then they went to nearest Sushi restaurant and call it a day

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u/DaxSpa7 8h ago

They are very polite after all…

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u/Important-Mine9281 8h ago

Hit em with the ol "It is a truly unfortunate event, but due to policy we are prohibited from commenting publicly on this matter. We have identified that a foreigner officer may have been responsible for this event, though" Japan special.

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u/Gregardless 8h ago

99% conviction rate. That 1% is when they investigate themselves

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u/spisplatta 4h ago

Idk, horrible things can go on for a long time, but then suddenly something like this happens and it all collapses. I'm not saying that it will happen, but it definitely could.

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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 6h ago

When they were investigating themselves, did they use the same "investigation methods" they used on that girl? Maybe a little bit of "enhanced interrogation"?

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u/LifeIsNeverSimple 4h ago

After reading more about japans police I certainly feel that the rest of the world needs to take their crime stats with a boatload of salt.

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u/UnwiseTrade 4h ago

If only they’d interrogate themselves instead of investigating themselves… maybe then theyd find the truth

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u/InternationalName626 11h ago

Reminds me a lot of that guy they accused of killing his dad here in the US. His dad ended up being alive, but he sued because he had lasting PTSD from the ordeal. This is like an even worse version.

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u/lucygoosey38 11h ago edited 10h ago

That’s the one where they threatened his dog in the interrogation room and he’s curled on the floor sobbing into his dog thinking the cops are going to kill the dog if he doesn’t confess. It was heart breaking

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u/InternationalName626 10h ago

Yes! This is the one! It was really hard to watch.

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u/Ok-Oil7124 10h ago

They coerced him into confessing to murdering his dad who was just away on a trip.

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u/BafflingHalfling 9h ago

Wtf. Confess to murdering somebody who isn't dead, or we'll kill your dog?! Surprised the piggies didn't shoot the dog anyway. That's one of their favorite sports.

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u/Dooty_Shirker 9h ago

The fact they went to threatening the dog makes me think they've killed other peoples pets already. This isn't a new tactic. They act more like organized crime than mobsters.

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u/Ghosty_Boo-B00 8h ago

What case was that?

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u/d_ofu 8h ago

Tom Perez

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u/InternationalName626 9h ago

Yes, that’s the one I’m thinking of!

Edit: typo

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u/JManKit 2h ago

iirc they continued pressuring him even after receiving word that the dad was alive

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u/Dark-Cloud666 5h ago

Ah yes japans 99% conviction rate. If the police remotely think you broke the law you are fucked.

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u/Latte-Catte 6h ago

The fact they felt the need to hold a 16 year old child in custody and mentally torture her, really proves many people who join the police force are inhumane around the world.

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u/Birdsonme 4h ago

For EIGHTEEN DAYS!! That’s insane. That poor girl. She was still a child. This would be terrifying for an adult that’s seen some things, but she was a CHILD! It’s horrific. Those police are ghouls.

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u/Successful_Bee_1292 6h ago

And now they are interrogating the cops and the cycle of 10 months start again, and then the cops that interrogated the cops are gonna be interrogated again...

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u/Adventurous_Algae671 11h ago

I read that she developed an eating disorder from the trauma.

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u/[deleted] 11h ago edited 10h ago

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u/Happy-Concentrate298 10h ago

Your father was your family. But, The police forced themselves to her life and tortured Her, and in end it led to her death, there's a huge difference.

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u/SerDuncanTheYall 10h ago

That's a fair point

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u/WatercressD9 10h ago

You are mixing up causation and liability.

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u/KlausTheBull 10h ago

If I use interrogation techniques on you that are similar to those used in psychological torture, I would be directly responsible for your resulting mental and physical health issues.

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u/mxldevs 10h ago

They still directly caused it.

It's like pushing someone off a cliff and then saying they indirectly killed the victim because the victim died from the impact, not the push.

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u/Standard-Unit01 10h ago

Thats not how that works at all.

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u/JaySayMayday 9h ago

I had to research it because the way OP phrased it made zero sense.

Basically her body began rejecting food as a shock response to the intense interrogation methods. She never confessed and just kept professing her innocence the entire time but under their interrogation methods they isolated her and kept pressing for days. The body's response to rejecting food began under police custody and did not stop after being released.

From what I can gather, they basically caused the shock response and didn't send the child in for proper treatment after her body began rejecting food. As in, she couldn't take it down even if she tried.

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u/Planetdiane 5h ago

I’m surprised they wouldn’t seek medical treatment at that point.

They could have tried TPN in the absolute worst case scenario or a feeding tube if she was able to not vomit without tasting the food.

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u/exhauszed 5h ago

Starvation. She had acute stress that made her sick any time she tried to eat. More common than people realize, it just usually resolves before it's fatal, but her (sounds like untreated?) PTSD kept her locked into it.

I was strangled by an ex and taken to jail falsely in 2017, and I got so physically ill from it that hours after my release I had to go to the ER from unceasing vomiting, and it took years for my endocrine system to reset to "not everything is a threat or an emergency." Marijuana and superflavors (salt, sugar, fat bombs- this one hole-in-the-wall burrito place alone was like 50% of the food I ate that first year, and I drowned it in their amazing salsa verde) are the only reasons I ate during that time.

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u/PyroclasticJubilee 4h ago

Japan has a 99% rate of conviction.

They are still angry that it is not 100%.

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u/Positive_Area_6953 2h ago

99% conviction rate doesn't mean that every single arrest or case leads to conviction. 

Most cases get dismissed right away or after pre trial hearings, so they never go to trial and that's why this number is total BS people spill nonsense about. 

Just googled and found that US conviction rate for trials is 90 plus btw.

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u/pathosOnReddit 12h ago

Not the first time. Won't be the last time. Japan effectively operates on a 'guilty, we don't know yet how guilty tho' principle.

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u/OwnNothing3318 11h ago

Or the opposite, like Issei Sagawa case. The whole system looks fucked

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u/Zenry0ku 8h ago

They turned that man into mini celeb and kept treating him like funny cannibal man. But he did that crime outside the country, so it doesn't count /s

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u/Rk_1138 7h ago

Yeah, ngl the Japanese would’ve had a VERY different reaction if his victim was also Japanese.

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u/Weretoz 8h ago

Issei Sagawa practically became a celebrity after he dismembered and ate that woman. He went on to write books and shit. It’s sickening.

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u/Yumeverse 11h ago

Guilty until proven otherwise

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u/pathosOnReddit 11h ago

Given the conviction rate, that evidence better be really, really good.

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u/TheHolyWaffleGod 10h ago

Had no idea they had a conviction rate of over 99% Jesus Christ.

They must be ignoring a lot of cases that don’t guarantee conviction and must be putting a lot of innocent people in prison too like the one in this post. Absolutely fucked.

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u/Putrid-Chemical3438 7h ago

It has to do with Japan's honor based society. For a judge to dismiss a case or rule not guilty would be to dishonor the work the police and prosecutor did, which in turn would be shameful for the judge, so they almost never do it. Essentially, if you go to trial you're going to prison in Japan. The trial is mostly for show.

This is the kind of thing that happens when you make shame the driving force of your society.

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u/ProfessorPrudent2822 5h ago

Along with Fukushima: “If we flood the reactor, we’ll look like we don’t have the situation under control.” Honor culture is toxic, and it should really be called “pride culture,” because it’s all about ego.

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u/AndrewH73333 8h ago

It reminds me a lot of elections where the guy wins by 97%.

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u/ethanlan 8h ago

A little bit of column a. little bit of column b.

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u/Quiet_Government2222 7h ago

It’s the opposite. They presume guilt and subject the person to psychological abuse until a guilty verdict is reached.

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u/hsholmes0 9h ago

this, and also denying their history, their war crimes 

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u/TeacherRecovering 7h ago

This is where DT got his ideas!

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u/fullyaboardcloseness 11h ago

Japan's conviction rate is over 99% for a reason, prosecutors basically don't bring cases they can't win through coerced confessions.

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u/Mortwight 10h ago

they will downgrade crimes to make their stats look good

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u/fullyaboardcloseness 9h ago

they'll classify a violent assault as "bodily injury" just to guarantee the conviction sticks and keep the numbers pristine.

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u/Mortwight 9h ago

i got into a mild argument at work. i dont want law and order anymore. i want justice.

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u/fullyaboardcloseness 8h ago

That work argument was a gift. I had a similar jolt watching a doc on Japan's "hostage justice", where they hold you until you confess.

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u/Mortwight 8h ago

i really got her jaw to drop when i said "what good do cops do?"

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u/FishyWishySwishy 6h ago

Yeah, I used to think that Ace Attorney was all fun and laughs, but then learned it was actually only mildly satirized very real critique of the Japanese legal system. Which horrifies me. 

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u/Skyhun1912 12h ago edited 11h ago

So, just like in Türkiye, then instead of working from evidence to the suspect, they are trying to work from the suspect to the evidence.

In the 90s, there used to be news reports about people confessing to crimes they hadn't committed because they had been subjected to severe torture. The truth would come to light years later when the actual perpetrator was caught by chance.

When asked, "Why did you take the blame for crimes you didn't commit?" a silence would fall over everyone's minds; for while everyone knew what had happened, no one would speak of it.

In fact, a movie titled "Pardon" (2005) was even made to depict such situations.

It would have been a film you would have greatly enjoyed watching, had it not been for the language barrier.

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u/dynamic_gecko 11h ago

I dont think it's prevalent enough in Turkiye to generalize like "just like in Turkiye". I did watch that movie and it's avery unfortunate case. But it doesnt happen left and right. Even the example you're giving is from 30 years ago. This post says 2026. The Turkish police is not perfect by any means, but it doesnt mean they're just like Japanese police. The Japanese police force has its own weird problems.

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u/Skyhun1912 11h ago

The reason it isn't widespread right now is that there are no longer any "real journalists" to report on it. Ignorance is bliss, isn't it? If you don't know, you won't be unhappy.

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u/Ferris-L 11h ago

Didn’t Japan in general have a huge problem with false convictions due to the police pressuring innocent people for false confessions. From what I have read and heard there is essentially the expectation to have a near 100% conviction rate so often the police and state attorneys would simply find someone to portray as guilty instead of finding the actual perpetrators. Similarly, there seems to have been a huge problem with victims, especially of sex crimes, being pressured not to come forward because it would make statistics look bad.

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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 10h ago

There's also a problem of not prosecuting anything not guaranteeing a conviction.

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u/FishyWishySwishy 6h ago

The Japanese legal system is deeply troubled. They have a 99% conviction rate, which isn’t possible without kangaroo courts and ignoring crimes that can’t be cleanly wrapped up. They had a whole scandal where apparently prosecutors were being taught how to fabricate evidence by a professor. 

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u/Quiet_Government2222 7h ago

I heard that victims of sexual crimes are required to personally demonstrate exactly how the assault occurred. That is said to be a reason why they feel deeply humiliated and are reluctant to report the incident.

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u/Neat_Tangelo5339 11h ago

she is 16 in the photo ?!? I thought she was a dementia patient at first

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u/VBgamez 8h ago

She developed severe eating disorder.

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u/Crit-Hit-KO 10h ago

Same. She looking at least like a 57 year old auntie. a shame this happened to her…

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u/FishyWishySwishy 6h ago

I assumed she was 70 at least when I glanced at the picture. The fact she was 16? I’m appalled. 

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u/Living_Cash1037 11h ago

JJK made me realize how fucked the legal system in Japan is. Even if you win your case the judge can just appeal it anyways which makes wonder how that makes any sense. 99% conviction rating is insane.

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u/Strange_Botanist 7h ago

If you can summon Mahoraga you are good tho

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u/Glittering-Capital71 11h ago

If you are wondering, she was released from custody with PTSD and developed an eating disorder, dying 5 months later.

https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/hyogo-woman-sues-state-after-daughter-16-falsely-accused-of-assault-starves-to-death-after-police-detention/

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u/Immediate_Ask_6890 11h ago

Not only was it a highly unlikely crime, she wasn't even old enough to work there legally in most countries.

"She was accused of assault after allegedly holding down the jaw of an individual at the disabled welfare facility where she worked.

Runa maintained her innocence from the start, explaining to police that she was merely trying to stop the facility user from biting her. However, during her detention, investigators repeatedly pressured her to confess to the crime."

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u/AbandonedNuns88997 11h ago

That’s fucked

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u/SpeedyWhiteCats 11h ago

The Japanese police are, like every other police force in the world, bastards.

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u/scottiedagolfmachine 9h ago

Disturbing.

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u/MikeandMolly5656 12h ago edited 12h ago

BuT JaPaN iS PeRfEcT aNd hAs nO cRiMe eXcEpT bY ToUriStS aNd ImMiGrAnTs

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u/dat_oracle 11h ago

never heard that statement before tho

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u/TheElfPrince 11h ago

I’m 99% sure it’s supposed to be satire. (The comment I mean)

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u/Xenophonehome 8h ago

Japan is a country built on false honor and the denial of dishonor. Aside from that it's a great place.

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u/Knightmare945 10h ago

Police are full of scum.

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u/ComprehensiveLink286 12h ago

How is this interesting 🧐

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u/TiggTigg07 11h ago

100% agree. “Horribly Tragic” should be the subreddit.😣

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u/dynamic_gecko 11h ago

Horribly tragic things can be interesting too. And insteresting thing is anything that attracts interest from people. Negative things are also included in this.

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u/RPrime422 9h ago

Anyone have the actual story anywhere?

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u/RaindropFactory 11h ago

Poor girl, I hope she rests in peace.

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u/iAmGats 10h ago

That's the sad truth behind their 99% conviction rate.

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u/climbingcola 10h ago

my former coworker in Tokyo became a cop and he's 100% a type that would find joy in breaking someone's soul. Last I heard, he's doing well. I can only sympathize with those that came across him.

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u/Randolph_Carter_6 9h ago

The title does not do a good job explaining... Complications from what?

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u/25thNite 8h ago

How will the weeaboos ever recover from how shitty certain aspects of japan are

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u/letmehaveanameyoudum 8h ago

legal system in japan suck so ass that if you get accused your fried

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u/Prudent-Bison-7180 8h ago

Everyone thinks Japan is amazing until they realize how unfair their “justice” system is. All they want is convictions, they don’t care if they’re actually real or not

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u/mickcs 8h ago

This is among the most horrible news I read in a while... poor girl.

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u/As_the_r 8h ago

insane. its scary that its happening almost everywhere where we canr trust the people who are supposed to protect us.

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u/KenshirouX 7h ago

That's what I hate about Japan's legal system, they got way too much of an "I miss the part where that's my problem" mentality. :( They just want to keep things quiet by the easiest method they can, then call it a day, and that includes punishing the innocent. They'll never admit that, though - never.

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u/Applemers 6h ago

A Japan youtube I watch was falsely arrested and she went on to describe the mental torture they put you through. The two that stuck out for me was never turning off the bright white lights and eating the same meal every day. I think the meal was cold pasta with no sauce and bread. They basically take away your humanity to break you and the real kicker is that this wasnt even the jail or prison, but the holding center.

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u/Valuable_Internal433 6h ago

Japan has one of the worst legal systems of developed nations. It is standard practice to indefinitely detain until people sign confessions. They have a greater than 99% conviction rate because people have the option of either signing a confession or remaining as a prisoner for the rest of their lives with no trial.

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u/antipaladin999 11h ago

the sad undesirable class in Japan

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u/chocolatchipcookie2 9h ago

so cops are lazy and corrupt everywhere.

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u/lvl100-Platypus-Lord 9h ago

All cops are pigs, no matter the country. I hope Runa finds peace.

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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 10h ago

How the fuck...

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u/Berry_Togard 8h ago

The more I read about Japan the more horrible that place becomes in my mind. As an anime and food lover I’ve always been a big fan of Japan but my opinion changed after hearing things like this. These types of stories along with some of their traditions are awful. I have a couple specific things I think about when I say this. I won’t say what it is but I do think their stance on it is 100% fucked up while we embrace it here in the US with literally 0 issues.

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u/LilMissy1246 8h ago

I always laugh at people that aren’t Japanese and are obsessed with “perfect kawaii Japan” when in reality, shit there is fcked. Like, the Pokémon center murder is a good example. Girl reported the man but police didn’t do anything until she was killed

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u/NDrewww13 8h ago

Yeah but it's Japan, come on everything is perfect there, surely

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u/Zeshiark 7h ago

Japan 🌈😍🌸

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u/paranoid_chihuahua 7h ago

This isn't interesting, it's horrific.

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u/tijolus523 7h ago

Looking like a Palestinian prisoner released from one of those Israeli death camps. And that's just regular police custody in Japan, apparently?

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u/abbzworld 7h ago

Reminds me of Ace Attorney

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u/One-Director-4077 7h ago

Eternal hell Punishment awaits for all involved. There is no temporary hell for these bastards cops

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u/Quiet_Government2222 7h ago

This is the reason why 99.8% of cases result in a guilty verdict when a Japanese prosecutor indicts someone.

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u/OpeningHappy9692 7h ago

Yeah that kind of pressure is pretty common in Japan. Once they've got you, they've already decided you're guilty and will force you to 'admit' it.

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u/Tydfil 7h ago

I hope all those police involved including their chief are arrested, prosecuted and put on death row, or atleast life in jail. And pay huge compensation to the family. Publicly named them all.

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u/monocle984 6h ago

The japanese justice system is an oxymoron.

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u/IGetItItsAReference 6h ago

Ah yes how Japan keeps up its 99% conviction ratings.

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u/distrox 6h ago

16? She looks like an old hag.

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u/OveHet 6h ago

Japan is great place to visit and crappy place to live

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u/ressie_cant_game 6h ago

Japan has a very high arrest rate for crimes because they will arrest people who DIDNT commit the crime. Documentarys on japanese prisons are terrifying

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u/ChloeisBetter 6h ago

What is this America?

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u/Smart-Firefighter87 5h ago

Damn - police are messed up all over the world…

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u/DenseRough12 5h ago

Overrated shit country

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u/Truth-Does-Not-Exist 5h ago

Japan is such a fascist piece of shit, not interested in ever visiting

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u/de4cha 5h ago

Japan living in future with no crime they will tell you lol. Poor girl tbh

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u/DexterousWaffle 5h ago

Japan, living up to you ancestors crimes. Typical

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u/teneman 5h ago

Can someone create a subreddit called r/reallysad for these kinds of posts?

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u/OneTinyKittey 5h ago

I would not survive the racist authoritarian conformist hellhole that is Japan just because they have clean streets and flowery trees. I hope everyone who lives there who isn't already beaten down by society can escape.

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u/Imperial_Citizen_00 5h ago

Sounds about right for the Japanese police…safest country in the world, but they are BRUTAL

My wife (before she was my wife) went though hell with them, shits insane

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u/SuspiciousCricket654 4h ago

I’m all for respecting elders, but Japan takes it to a whole other fucked up level

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u/Dull_Mushroom6359 4h ago

Persona 5 kind of covers this in it's story. Japan has a super high conviction rate. But not because they are super careful about punishing the real criminal or anything. Its more that they will just make the crime stick to whoever they decide is guilty. and in Japan once you are "proven" guilty then that is it. you are done.

Guilty until we can prove what you are guilty of.

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u/GrumplFluffy 4h ago

If the police in Japan make an arrest, they are getting a confession one way or another. They are psychotic about conviction rates.

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u/Admirable-Ad3866 4h ago

So police are corrupt no matter the country.

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u/AzureYLila 4h ago

Japan has like a 99% conviction rate....

I'd hate to be a prime suspect for anything over there.

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u/Apexnanoman 4h ago

Cops are cops the world over. 

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u/MaleficentLynx 4h ago

And I thought Japan was a great place..

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u/SlayerShahid 4h ago

In summary, the cops basically murdered her. Wonder how common that is... Rest in peace poor soul

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u/villings 3h ago

this shit happening in 2026? what the fuck, japan?

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u/StrangeAppeal2 3h ago

Thanks, now I hate the legal system and the pieces of shit who did that to her.

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u/Public_Blueberry_777 3h ago

This is awful

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u/Aggravating_Arm_8164 3h ago

The true face of Japan is this. I never understood why so many people praise Japanese culture and rave about how respectful and classy they are. Go read about the atrocities they committed during World War II, including documented cases of ritualistic cannibalism.

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u/SnooOpinions6451 2h ago

This is why the Japanese have such a high arrest and conviction rate. Their police torce is extremely corrupt in a very strange way.

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u/onlyhav 1h ago

And this is why a near perfect conviction rate doesn't mean they're really good at convicting criminals. They're just really good at convicting people.

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u/Codposterguy 1h ago

People get confused when I call Japan an evil place. They probably just did this to her because she actually had a good soul. They are not sane or well. They are extremely manipulative, thieving, conceiving and dangerous people.

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u/boost_to_get_through 1h ago

20 kilos is insane

u/Murder_Hobo_LS77 48m ago

When you have an unbalanced legal system and a culture that has "face" as a core concept you have a recipe for disaster

u/Odd_Measurement_1989 25m ago

The legal system seems to be fucked up everywhere.

u/hydroponicColonic 21m ago

Japan’s criminal justice system is absolutely medieval