>Human Rights Practices in Japan 2015 Edition
https://archive.is/IQYed
>Executive Summary
Japan has a parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy. Shinzo Abe, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, became prime minister in 2012. Lower house elections in December 2014 were considered free and fair. Civilian authorities maintained effective control over the security forces.
Leading human rights problems included lack of due process for pretrial detainees and poor prison and detention center conditions.
Other persistent human rights problems included detention of asylum seekers; domestic violence, sexual harassment, and workplace discrimination against women; trafficking in persons, including the exploitation of foreign trainee workers; the exploitation of children; societal discrimination against minority group members, indigenous persons, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals, and persons with disabilities.
The government enforced laws prohibiting human rights abuses and prosecuted officials who committed them.
>And the Japs call themselves a 1st world nation
>Trial Procedures
Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty, but respected NGOs and lawyers continued to question whether they were presumed innocent in fact.
According to NGOs the majority of indicted detainees confessed while in police custody, although the government continued to assert that convictions were not based primarily on confessions and that interrogation guidelines stipulate that suspects may not be compelled to confess to a crime.
In 2014 courts heard approximately 337,000 defendants in criminal cases and found 116 suspects not guilty, resulting in a conviction rate of more than 99.9 percent.
>Not even the US is THAT cruel
The courts also dismissed 319 cases. Independent legal scholars alleged that the judiciary gives too much weight to confessions, although the government disagreed.
According to some independent legal scholars, trial procedures favor the prosecution. The law provides for access to counsel; nevertheless, a significant number of defendants reported that this access was insufficient.
The law does not require full disclosure by prosecutors unless the defending attorney is able to satisfy difficult disclosure procedure conditions. This sometimes resulted in the suppression of material that the prosecution did not use in court.
>Be a prosecutor in Japan
>Apply shady tactics
>Don't get called out on it
>mfw
Based Japan is Based
>On Women
Prosecutors interpreted forcible to mean evidence of force and/or physical resistance by the victim is necessary to consider a sexual encounter to be rape.
Although prohibited by law, domestic violence against women remained a serious problem. On January 3, revised legislation allowed victims of abuse by domestic partners, spouses, and former spouses to receive protection at shelters and seek restraining orders from court.
The law does not criminalize sexual harassment but includes measures to identify companies that fail to prevent it,
>does not criminalize sexual harassment
>Of course!
>On Children
The continued practice of enjo kosai (compensated dating) and the existence of websites for online dating, social networking, and “delivery health” (a euphemism for call-girl or escort services) facilitated child prostitution and other commercial sex industries.
A trend known as “JK Business” continued to grow; these businesses include cafes that feature underage female servers and massage parlors staffed by high-school-age girls. NGOs helping girls in “JK Business” reported a link between these activities and child prostitution.
>Everyone knows what a JK Business is
Statutory rape laws criminalize sexual intercourse with a girl younger than 13, notwithstanding her consent. The penalty for statutory rape is not less than three years’ imprisonment with mandatory labor, and the law was enforced. Additionally, national law and local ordinances comprehensively address sexual abuse of minors, including boy victims.
The country was a site for the production of child pornography and the exploitation of children by traffickers. In 2014 the country criminalized the possession of child pornography, remedying a major gap in the law. Enforcement began on July 15.
>Japan: exploiting children since the Heian period
The commercialization of child pornography is illegal; the penalty is imprisonment with labor for not more than three years or a fine not exceeding three million yen ($28,300), and police continued to crack down on this crime. Police reported a record-high 1,828 child pornography investigations involving 746 child victims in 2014.
No law addresses the unfettered availability of sexually explicit cartoons, comics, and video games, some of which depicted scenes of violent sexual abuse and the rape of children. Experts suggested a culture that appears to accept the depiction of child sexual abuse harmed children.
>Apparently, real children are not enough for the rabid Japanese.
>On Minorities
Despite legal safeguards against discrimination, foreign nationals with permanent residency in the country, including many who were born, raised, and educated in the country, were subjected to various forms of entrenched societal discrimination, including restricted access to housing, education, health care, and employment opportunities.
Foreign nationals as well as “foreign-looking” Japanese citizens reported they were prohibited entry, sometimes by signs reading “Japanese Only,” to privately owned facilities serving the public, including hotels and restaurants.
Ethnic Koreans who chose not to naturalize faced difficulties in terms of civil and political rights and, according to the country’s periodic submissions to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, regularly encountered discrimination in access to housing, education, and other benefits.
According to media and NGO reports, incidents of hate speech on the internet continued. In 2014, the UN Human Rights Committee, in its response to the country’s sixth periodic report, expressed concern about “widespread racial discourse against members of minority groups, such as Koreans, Chinese, or Burakumin, inciting hatred and discrimination against them,” and called laws to protect persons from such acts “insufficient.”
>Haters gonna hate
I'm sure the state dept's definition is a rape dungeon full of feral negroes.
So there's that.
>>71034365
>trusting the u.s. government to have a true assessment of japan
nope
And people say radiations are toxic.
>>71034561
Japan allows barely anyone to own guns. What is your post? Learn about how awful and faggoty Japan is before you speak.
>>71034365
>US criticising other countries' prisons and justice system
topus kekus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJp9nKaO7c4
Japanese prison is literally like the basic training period in the army. Looks like a well working system.
>>71034561
Gandi was friends with Hitler and anti White, why the fuck are you even supporting him?
