Why Every Japanese Criminal is Guilty
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- čas přidán 6. 12. 2019
- Every system of justice is inevitably found to be unjust. The question is in which direction, and how far.
This is a fairly basic outline of Japan's idiosyncratic nature. Sort of an easy week for me. Hope you like it!
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Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will.
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@@oddish2253 I'd argue that cowardice is the intended result of habitually shaming people, both in society and in private or work or really any relations. It's how authoritarian rule becomes unquestioned.
This Legal system is a total joke, and is inhumane to the extreme. I was released from Japanese custody last week (Charges were dropped by Japanese court.). The Japanese Justice system is not justice at all, it is all based around confessions, intimidation,cultural shaming and perceived remorse.
People from where I live (U.K) and across the western world take a look at Japan’s crime stats on a piece of paper and say yep the Japanese are doing it right And we should implement their system. Not knowing how many holes there are in their system and what a disaster it would be. confessions are judged as the king of all evidence within Japan... which is reflected through all of the draconian practises the Police, prosecutor’s, Courts and the system in general use relentlessly to obtain it.
They start from the second you are within their custody there is No access to an attorney during interview. The interview is not recorded. Up to 36 hour long police interrogations which are conducted with you tied up to the chair with no food or sleep. You will be screamed at, insulted, threatened, humiliated and physically abused.
After this stage people are then put into a detention centre within the police station. This is 4 walls a floor and a hole in the ground for shitting. Welcome to your new home that is big enough to fit 4 people but has 6 in.
You have no furniture or bed. The temperature will be so cold that you go into survival mode. You are unable to speak to anyone within your cell. English is not allowed to be spoken. You are fed on 1300Cals a day. You don’t see sunlight or go outside. You are unable to see, hear or have communication with your family. Access to BASIC medication, such as treatment for Severe diarrhoea or severe vomiting will be purposefully restricted unless you are actually dying. This period lasts 23 days at least, all the while to police and prosecutors are ‘working’ on a case to bring forward to a judge. In reality, they are doing all they can to psychologically and physically break you into confession. Once they have this it is looked at as the grandest piece of evidence and you will be behind bars and become one of the 99% of other people.
If these are your experiences then I think this needs to go higher up, so I gave a like. I hope others do as well
So what were you in for, Doc?
Anti Dote thank you so much! I didn’t want to go into too much detail about all of the brutalities so I just tried to give a clear summary of the way things unfortunately work. It saddens me that the culture I loved so much from the outside, can be so badly broken from the inside.
uegvdczuVF uegvdczuVF I had 4 Pain killers in rucksack for a sustained injury. I was told that they can detain me in case it was something such as Meth tablets (?!?) Once the lab test showed it was clearly not an illegal narcotic, they then tried to make me sign a written statement in Japanese confessing to an Importation charge. I admire the Japanese lady who represented me. without her, I would not of been able to gather all the evidence needed to have all charges dropped. Even though I knew inside I didn’t do anything to warrant the treatment I got, I was near a point of signing the confession statement to just at least get certainty, and to write to my family (which can only be done once you are found guilty and moved to the “Proper” prisons if that makes sense...)
@@rr212 technically you did do something illegal. Under Japanese law bringing in even one aspirin counts as importing controlled drugs. I just wanted to point that out for anyone traveling to Japan. While they will probably let you off with a warning, as the OP found even without technically being found guilty, and he may not have even been formally charged, they can do a lot to you.
As far as implementing the Japanese legal system, you really can't do it without the Japanese culture. As the Japanese culture dies the legal system will become a much worse problem and I don't know if they will adapt in time.
“Freedom on paper does not equate to freedom in practice.”
iran belike
@@olelubbers9441 Sorry, but I would think that this phrase is a better description of the US at present (and indeed since the early to mid 80s!)
@@arfnore And you are proving him that by writing comment on website that is banned in Iran and freely accessible in US. I would say that US is less free since all that “mah national security” policies put in action after 9/11, but for someone saying unironically “no, not Iran, it’s totally USA” and publishing it without hindrance for American audience to see, is kind of hypocritical.
@@stafer3 don't worry, there's enough oppression to go around, for all of you.
@@stafer3 if I could understand what you are saying I would reply in detail. Anyway, I would point out that the only people who are truly free in the USA is wealthy people (about 10% of the population). Poor and middle income people are seen as a threat to the rich and, therefore have to be controlled. This is done mainly through social and cultural manipulation. For example, poor white people in, say, West Virginia consistently vote in politicians who advocate policies detrimental to them for no other reason than cultural affiliation with one political party. Such tactics can hardly be described as " freedom".
The conviction rate is the reason Pheonix Wright always has to not only prove his client innocent but to also find and prove the guilt of the real culprit.
America is one of the few countries in the world where you are innocent until proven guilty.
@@cokebear1337 That's the case in most western countries, especially Europe.
@@Lancor84 yeah, and he forgot to. Mention that it only applies when you are white lmao
@@cokebear1337 I wish it was on the list, but it's really not. The plea bargain system alone makes that false. There are far more than a few though. So it's not all bad news.
Aren't you also a tyrant dear Spazz? Hmmm.
Judge: you are guilty for manslaughter.
80 year old japanese dude: Dude im in a wheelchair.
Judge: i dont care off you go.
Well, born in the 30s, he would be well capable of killing someone knowingly at the very end pf WW2
@@kekeke1201 an 80 year old man would have been born in 1940 and wouldn’t be in very likely to hurt anyone in ww2
@@BarginsGalore You know Japan pretty much sent every last man to war at the end of ww2 right? 80 year old man is probably unlikely to be in the war but as much as 86 it would have made it possible to be drafted. Plus they had similar structures like H-youth in Germany back then.
THAT'S WHY CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 5 CAN GO TO SCHOOL. IN AMERICA OR EUROPE THEY'LL DISAPPEAR WITHOUT A TRACE
Ken Dingling in a nutshell
_"Prosecutors only bring cases to court when they are sure the suspect is guilty."_ will invariably become: _"The suspect must be guilty because the prosecutors have brought it to court!"_
Why even go through the charade of a trial if conviction is near certain?
I live in Brazil and can confirm this
@@treck87 Are you implying that the amerikan system is betta?
laughs in Epstein.....
There is no perfect system, any online game balance will have its problem until the next balance.
The judicial system makes any updates for any reason within what time frame? Is any judicial system even trying?
@@laychyetan7466 it is though. Its almost purposfully imprisoning the innocent and letting the guilty walk free
@@laychyetan7466
That is BS, it doesn't matter that there are flaws in other systems. One has to adress the issues in front, not point at others and claim it pointless. Also, I don't like calling people on grammar but your words make little sense, even for the internet.
@@laychyetan7466 definitely better than the japanese system....
I got robbed in Shinjuku last year. The police didn't want me to report it as a crime, insisting for hours that I report it as merely a loss. I finally caved when they said that if I didn't play along, my Korean friend, who was also robbed, wouldn't be able to get an emergency passport (which turned out to be false).
I also was robbed by a young lady who was a kleptomaniac and when her parents found all the stolen purses and wallets in her room and made efforts to return them, the police made me sign a paper saying I wouldn't press charges because the family made efforts to return my wallet to me...ok, but what about all the money she stole out of it and then all the fees I incurred getting a new residence card, bank card, and the like? grumble grumble. But I guess now hearing about the system in more detail, I see why her parents were trying to avoid it.
The police didn't think they could catch the guy and didn't want to stain of failing to find the thief to impact their numbers.
Pewdiepie even proves how “safe” Japan is by being robbed,
I feel like a lot of people forget that Japan is usually on the wrong side of history like how they where allies with the nazis and shit like maybe people should stop looking up to the country like they have their shit all figured out lol
@@Boostiverse there's something to be said for Japan's almost pathological concern for 'face'. Which is that even when you know the image is a lie, not everyone does. So it works.
Long story short: basically the system is light yagami
Made my day and its kinda true
You could not be more wrong. because at least Yagami won't torture you and will give you the sweet release of death.
If Yagami was like the system, he would write your name in the deathnote and then add next to it "But only after 30 years of torture and a signed confession which includes praise to the system for being so effective"
and i feel like that's the real dark part. but love the comment anyway, +1
@@ThatOneDude7 I kinda think that makes the system somewhat inadvertently effective, combined with the repressive culture of Japan they make sure no one even attempts crimes without either being 100% sure they won't get caught or coming to terms that they'll most likely be in prison for a really long time. That's why Japanese crime is so odd, the one guy who stole millions from a candy company and was never found, that one guy who stabbed 11 children, the terrorist cultist who gassed the trains and so on.
Meep Meep Robbery is rampant in Japan but they just never get reported. The POLICE will advice you not to because they most likely can’t find the person. They’ll even bribe you if you’re a foreign just to keep their stats squeaky clean. I would know I was robbed 3 times within 6 months and each time was advised to report it as a loss instead of a robbery. Broken system cares about face than justice.
@@ThatOneDude7 Na, you really think they wouldnt want to just kill criminals if they could? They wouldnt need to build prisons, they wouldnt need to spend money on feeding and housing prisoners. Light is definitely the system, most of his victims are the people who the system finds guilty.
So basically you're bullied into being guilty?
Bullied is an understatement. People are borderline tortured to confess even when they are innocent
@@m.richards6947 It is true that most trials don't get to court in the USA, but those who are truly innocent definitely have a good chance of getting their innocence proven if they do insist on taking it to trial. That is why prosecutions fight so hard to get confessions and plea deals in the first place in the USA, because they usually know pretty well that they are unlikely to convict beyond a reasonable doubt in the majority of cases.
Where in Japan, you may be far less likely to be charged with a crime in the first place - since they want to avoid getting embarrassed on their end - but once you are charged, say goodbye to any chance of actual justice or due process. I wonder if it is better or worse for foreigners like myself who visit Japan, because on the one hand we would stick out a lot more, but on the other hand Japanese individuals are significantly less likely to want to deal with us because the risk for trouble is much greater.
@@echomjp If you have the money, good luck with a public defender.
@@echomjp depends on your race, where the crime happened, and/or who you are for the United States. A white female cop in Texas walked into a black males apartment and killed him because she thought it was her own apartment. She got man slaughter and a hug from the judge who sentenced her.....
@@zockheem I'm not denying that such circumstances happen, of course. But they are far from being the norm. We have literally millions of people in prison in the USA, and for every person in prison we have countless others who do not end up there who interact with police or our justice system.
While I think our justice system needs a lot of reform, it at least gives you a fair shot at something other than a mockery of a trial. Needing police reform and accountability is related obviously to the larger issue of justice.
Edit: As others responded, intimidation tactics being used by law enforcement alongside public defenders being criminally underfunded and worked to their limits definitely are other issues that need to be dealt with.
A lot of people don’t realize, “Conviction” does not equal “guilt.”
Conviction: having been declared *guilty* of a criminal offense by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge.
Quinson just because someone says you’re guilty doesn’t mean you are.
True Gopnik gotcha. That makes sense.
@@truegopnik6591 In that case "acquittal! does not equal innocence. This is the problem that I have with these kind of assumptions; guilt and innocence, as determined by the judicial process, becomes variable in validity based on the subjective opinions of each individual.
For example, in rape and sexual assault cases, here in Ireland, accused men will very often go through a detailed court process, be acquitted as innocent, yet still, somehow, be considered guilty. The reasons often given for this is that "just because someone is found innocent in court doesn't mean they didn't do it!" But that places these men in an intolerable position because it is simply impossible to prove that you DIDN'T do something; basic logic states that you cannot prove a negative! It also means that guilt, in these kinds of crimes, is based, not on an objective analysis of the facts, but, essentially, on the basis of one persons accusation (regardless how plausible!)
The opposite is also true in sexual assault cases involving women as the perpetrators in Ireland. In the vast majority of such cases women, even when convicted of appalling abuse and neglect of children, are treated as much as a victim as the actual victim on whom the crime is committed. Often you will find hundreds of people campaigning on behalf of the CONVICTED female perpetrator, in order to have her released, for reasons including "she was pressured into it by a boyfriend" or "she was abused as a child"; excuses that are simply not available to any male perpetrator convicted of such an offense EVEN IF THEY HAD EXPERIENCED ABUSE AS A CHILD. The real reason why women get treated so differently is because, in the majority of peoples minds, men will ALWAYS be the perpetrators of sexual violence (and all men have a propensity for it both physically and emotionally); they will NEVER, EVER be the victim unless they were prepubescent children at the time of the offence and did not, themselves, commit offenses as an adult. Similarly, women are ALWAYS victims when it comes to sexual violence, or, when they are involved, their actions were always controlled and imposed by a male figure in their life. In this way, a very simple "truth" is ingrained in the wider social consciousness; men are perpetrators, women victims. Anything that goes against this "truth", like facts and evidence, are ignored or undermined because humans find it very difficult to accept they are wrong and that their attitudes need to change.
It is within this context that the absolutism of court outcomes needs to be upheld. Yes, where there are mistakes they need to be rectified, but this needs to happen within the courts system, not in the wider public imagination. Yes people can campaign for their interests to be safeguarded, but this need to be guided by facts and evidence, not conversations on twitter.
Sorry for the rant, but I studied this for years and it still annoys me.
@@arfnore a) you can prove a negative e. g. modus tollens
b) OJ
Someone said: Learn from Japan but never Replicate Japan
I think this sentence should make sense here
Otanaku Leana that guy was well said then.
@@otanakugaming3357 then it's definitely not true
(jk)
Makes sense. It's basically their motto too. But replace Japan with The West.
Replication was never possible in the first place
That's what the Japanese did and do with the West.
My kids were friends with a Japanese exchange student and she was doing everything in her power to not return to Japan. She hated it there. That was almost 20 years ago and I understand that she is quite happy living in St Louis and working in a bank. It was very interesting lasting to her.
Imagine being a lawyer in Japan, most useless work ever
And in fact there are very few lawyers in Japan. Not just because of the criminal side... Japanese people almost never settle disputes through lawsuits.
@@nbartlett6538 How do they settle?
@@halotrixzdj battle to the death
kamikaze or harikri
@@duringtherapy Kamikaze is suicide bombing, did you mean seppuku/harakiri?
Now I realize that Psycho-Pass is an anime criticizing Japanese society.
Now that you mention it, you might be right
Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney is also a scathing critique.
While yes, there is some initial comparisons, Psycho Pass goes much deeper than that.
psycho pass is what japan will be if you give it 100 more years of this bullshit going on
YES! FINALLY, we ned more of psycho pass
Rare earth at it again bringing attention to problems that aren't paid enough attention.
@Neo don't forget about the landscapes in the video. Beautiful Japan.
@@ginxxxxx Nice try troll lmao
@@ginxxxxx Dear gin: As an American, I feel that the Japanese legal system is none of my business. If the majority of Japanese citizens want to go along with this, then who am I to say that it's wrong ? Since 1500, White Christian Europeans and their descendants have destroyed cultures around the world and tried to replace them with "superior" European beliefs. I see this video as just the latest step in that direction. People in the West just don't understand that not everyone in the world defines "freedom" in the same way that they do. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
No, it's just White man's bullshit.
LMAO, dimwits feeding the troll
so here I was, thinking deadman wonderland was a dystopia, turns out it's just a historical document.
ye, me too
That judge that sentenced the innocent man to be executed sounds really weak. How can you send someone to die knowing full well they are innocent.
For a culture that takes pride in honor and their ancient warriors that whole sentiment of never speaking up against injustice sure sounds really cowardly.
Warrior honor in Japan was about loyalty and duty to one's lord/ group, not so much about standing for what you believe is right
@MinecraftPro15 Suicide isn't honorable... maybe he wanted to, but what about his family?
MinecraftPro15 Isnt it only honorable to commit seppuku if you were unloyal to your own group or fucked something up for them? like if he freed the guy and got fired for that? He likely didnt feel any responsibility for the man he had convicted
@MinecraftPro15 Seppuku is an archaic barbaric practice, and is seen as such to modern Japanese, because they're not the lunatics they were back in the 1700's
@@specialopsdave 1945* generals and other officials of the army in ww2 do seppuku
This video reminds me of the phrase “ I was only following orders”
Bionic Turtle Damn. Too true
Ah yes, the classic ‘Nuremberg defense’.
I've been thinking about this.
Whatever you do, if your orders are wrong ethically, you're fucked.
"Don't follow orders you think are ethically wrong" yeah my ass.
You're fucked if you follow them and then you lose.
You're fucked if you don't follow them, even more if you win.
So between being fucked for sure and maybe being fucked, I would follow orders too.
they were on the same side as the Germans
Comrade Rajo thats your FUCKING opinion
"…calling it your job don’t make it right, Boss."
-Cool Hand Luke
*what we got here is a failure to communicate...some man you just can't reach*
'That's six pounds of eggs...'
I didn't know that one, thanks.
Just watched this on Netflix, good movie
Eyyyyy bosssss
The the title should be “why every defendant are guilty”.
*is
Yeah, I mean... a criminal is guilty by definition, not just in Japan.
@@JannPoo yes but in Japan you are guilty from the get go, in america, you are innocent until proven guilty
Simple answer :
Other legal systems : Innocent before proven guilty.
Japanese legal system : guilty before proven innocent.
So, even if you are 100% innocent, you still guilty in front of the judge unless you have a "100% perfect proof that cannot be challenged by the prosecutor"
@ocelot. except that even the witch trials were fairer than japanece legal system, the witch trials get a lot of bad rap and misconceptions, it wasnt like you could literaly just scream (she is a witch) and the person was inmediately burned, you actually had to present evidence of your claim and if it was inconclusive or not enough the charges were dropped and the person liberated, for example the soo famous spanish inquisition never burned someone thats a story, the modern imagination of the witch trials are a exageration
So yeah, you had more probabilities of surviving a witch trial than the japanece juridical system, talk about broken
It's actually worse, the police can and will intentionally withhold evidence that could exonerate the accused, and a lot of times an alibi provided by family members "doesn't count" as a real alibi
So even "100% perfect proof" isn't always enough
It's not even that in Japan. It's guilty until proven guilty.
Japan's police have also been accused of classifying any unsolved homicides as a suicide. By contrast UK and US have countless unsolved homicides every year.
So true. Based on annual averages if you commit a murder you have about a 50% chance of getting away with it.
So that's why Japan has a bullshit suicide rate.
@@chalkfourtyfive Well, they definitely have a lot of reasons for that. For one suicide is in Japan's culture. It's known that often Japenese people commit suicide to avoid shame. Also as was stated in the video their society has such a large emphasis on work, most people work in an office for 10 hours a day and even live in tiny apartments closer to their jobs rather than live with their wives and kids or other family. Meaning they are often lonely and obviously depressed as anyone would be working a job they hate only to give money to people they rarely even see.
Seems like the kind of place where a low-key assassin with a respectable job could kill people for years and get away with it.
@@jasoncarswell7458 There are no serial killers in Japan. Never have been. Never will be. That is all.
Since they don't officially exist, the Cops don't officially look for them.
Unsolved death = suicide = private matter = no press coverage. Bodies found all over town, official silence.
Almost like the government wants the string of killings to go on unabated...Cops in Japan don't get to kill folks, so not catching killers does the same thing, eh?
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery"
-Thomas Jefferson
I swear 90% of this comment section is just quotes
"I swear 90% of this comment section is just quotes" - reel one
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Never trust an edited CZcams comment.
- Thomas "Dangerously Free" Jefferson
Which made him a good judge of preferring freedom over slavery.
In Japan, they make you admit the crime no matter what, and when you admit it, it’s gonna be used against you in the court
why youre the only here with a japaneese youtube name? if someone uploaded something about germany you can be sure the whole comment section is german, no matter which language the video is. btw: found 2 comments from you and right now here are over 6700 comments... i only found yours.
Wrutschgeluck well that’s because I’m Japanese lol, you can probably see me replying in Japanese to a Japanese comments
@@user-fn3py8hv9p I think they were more perplexed by the fact there aren't more Japanese people in this comment section.
Radstark yeah well that’s prolly because majority of the Japanese don’t even understand a bit about English I guess
@@user-fn3py8hv9p Weird, I thought it was quite common.
What languages do you guys study there? I'm genuinely curious since I come from a country where English is "kinda" taught but no one really cares much about actually learning it. I know I could just look it up but I think having information about a country from someone actually living there is much more valuable.
Sae Nijima in Persona 5 is a prosecuter in Japan and just like he explains in this video her job is described to as one to obtain the truth, but to convict the accused. If you fail to convict even once as a prosecuter, say goodbye to your whole career.
A persona fan i see!!! Same here and I agree
It reminds me of the movie Hot Fuzz. The tiny, seemingly idyllic village hasn't had a crime in 20 years. But that's only because the villagers murder anyone who commits a crime and makes it look like an accident...
I like the movie.The fight scene was truly badass.Not bad for a British movie
The Liberal Democratic Party is Judge Judy and exetutioner!
IT WAS FOR THE GREATER GOOD
@@handywijaya3689 it's bad ass because it's mocking all the us over hyped action stuff
That's a spoiler mate.
This is the most striking theme that I took away from two years in Japan. In an effort to save face, there is a stunning amount of rot hidden below the surface.
Ahhh there we have it.
I was wondering how come the Japanese were not inflicted by the safe face at all cost.
I dare to think what’ll happen over there if the whole thing comes crashing down around them if they don’t AT LEADT TRY to fix thing from the ground up.
In Asian culture and traditions, reputation is everything and triumph over anything important.
Daniel Whyatt it already came crashing down on them. The companies/government felt such a rapid need to grow, that if they weren’t growing at tremendous rates it would be a loss of face. This caused companies to over leverage themselves to a very high extent. Almost 30 years of stagflation ended up being the result.
Stagflation caused a high level of depression. Depression combined with Japan’s suicide culture.... well it hasn’t been pretty.
Just look at TEPCO's attempts at saving face in 2011 #NotGreatNotTerrible
Innocent people sitting in jail:
Yakuza: *laughs in Japanese*
Being accused of something makes you already guilty. Like for example, even if you didn’t do anything at all. But then a woman screams and accuses you of sexual harassment, the police wouldn’t want to hear your side and only think of you as a miserable person trying to deny what you’ve done. They are gonna tell you that you are so shameful for trying to escape it and even make you admit it no matter what. Even if you managed to prove your innocence the people around you will just think that justice wasn’t served.
Also, even if you were a criminal and was freed from jail. You won’t find any job cause people think you’re a criminal no matter what and even if you convince them that you’ve changed they will still be concerned about hiring a “criminal”, they won’t see you as a fellow human and you most likely to get mistreated and discriminated once they know you have a history.
Jesus. It’s really that bad?
@@Sckeza in murika it is
I mean second part is true in america as well. If u have criminal background, you cant work. Even minimum wage jobs wont hire you. Logic is if there are many competant people competing for a job, why hire one with criminal background and that logic is very understandable tbh.
That’s America as well bro
LazyBones Most likely not to the same degree, but still bad
When the system cannot be wrong, it is meaningless when it gets it 'right'
This put a lot of things about Ace Attorney into perspective....
Fuck that game is lenient on the actual Japanese system. In real life there is no penalty it seems.
@@switchplayer1016 That game is for the Japanese market. The intention is to "glorify" the defense attorney (in the eyes of Japanese youth) as a counter balance for a reality, where there is no defense at all. How we in the west see this game is not even a secondary concern for the creators.
Ace Attorney, Persona 5, Judgement (Yakuza spinoff)... Hell, even Death Note took a stab at Japan's messed up legal system. The fact that multiple Japanese games focus on it as a central issue feels very indicative of its real life severity. Yikes...
(Also they all taught me that friendly brown-haired detectives obsessed with "justice" should *never* be trusted, but that might be just a coincidence idk)
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Jake Peralta
Ace Attorney was written specifically to satirize the ridiculousness of the Japanese legal system
That's a brilliant video about the topic that many stay quiet about. Amazing.
That’s why Carlos Ghosn made sure he got out instead of being prosecuted there.
smart move
funny because he escaped three weeks after this video was posted
@@AA-ok5jz Ph, they reported and decided he was guilty? How is this any better?
We will never know and honestly, nether government has any moral right or legal standing due to they corruption.
I once read a fascinating book on the Yakuza and their very existence, to this very day, is predicated on the way the justice system works. In Japan, the severity of the crime of which you're convicted doesn't matter; once convicted, you're a permanent member of the underclass. Part of the reason for recidivism in any society is the inability of the ex-con to go straight because no one will give them a chance. In my country the U.S., it's due primarily to a lack of trust, a lingering presumption of guilt. In Japan, hiring a "criminal" is shameful; if you consort and support "those people," you are considered the same as them and knowing how "those people" are forced to live, no one wants that for themselves and their families. It would be not only a black mark on one's family name, but would bring rebuke from one's ancestors. The ONLY recourse for such castoffs, the only way to make ends meet, is to fully join the criminal subclass. After all, if no one will let you earn an honest living, your only other option is a dishonest one.
This has been the norm in the older generations but in the last 10 years, the prevailing views have changed a lot. Mostly led by the younger generations in Japan. Slowly they will enter politics and the system will improve further.
Joshua Moore Yeah pretty much. I dated a girl whose family (many generations prior to her) had been run out of Japan by the Samurai for their ties to the Yakuza. Granted, from what I understand they were not simply cooperating with the group, rather, heavily involved in it's functioning, but nonetheless, it's why her family is in America.
I never thought I'd say this but I'd prefer the American system over this any day of the week.
Just like being arrested in some countries, you get filed into the system forever no matter the accusation and that record will haunt you for the rest of your life.
illwitness the japan judiciary system was created to mirror United States , many modern japan culture were created by Americans after ww2 , for example Japanese work culture was created by Americans
I've always been skeptical of the universal praise that Japan often receives and critical of a culture that declares the state infallible. It's our duty to question systems around us in order to better them and the society they are intended to serve, blind obedience never got anyone anywhere.
@@anonb4632 Except for how Japan's system is also slowly killing itself, with low awareness for mental health issues, overworking, and such
@@anonb4632 A hot mess where you live as human is thousand times better than living a cog in a machine.
@@user-jy3rx2bk9e LOL expect it's not.
Well, when you couple this what the fact that there’s a noteworthy faction in Japanese government angling for historical revision regarding what Japan did as a nation to the rest of Asia during World War II, it says a lot about where the nation is at this point. You could even make an argument about how bizarre its culture and media can appear to outsiders being a reaction to the at-times stifling nature of its society. China isn’t exactly a shining paragon of justice either, just like how this country isn’t exactly what it advertises itself to be.
@@anonb4632 Well it's the responsibility of the people to remind every nation that their disgusting past exists, and that they must acknowledge and apologise for their history.
I’ve been playing some Phoenix Wright games and this added a whole new context the premise of the game, it makes the whole games so much more complex that your a defense attorney fight against the prosecution each with near perfect conviction records.
Nobody:
Closed Captions: “Crimmmmmmmme”
For a moment I had to check if this is English CC.
the Japanese people be like: "we are the system" okay chill down skynet
Lio Local Chibi Thief Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
They have had two judgment days.
😂😂😭😭
Makes me glad that the Americans nuked them, and completely destroyed their ass. Japan’s worse than China, when it comes to the legal system and that’s not even a joke.
@@erichkaufmann5284 The few positives to Japan are the following:
1. New and better technology every day
2. Environmental consciousness
3. Aforementioned safety
4. It has some form of democracy
But the destructively crushing society will destroy Japan forever
Has Japan really "handled" its homeless problem? When I was there in the early 90s, it was a verboten subject. Homeless people were basically ignored and weren't counted. In their minds, at the time, they had no "homeless problem". When I was there, I didn't see many, but those that I did were sights that will stick with me for the rest of my life... :/
Check "Life Where I'm From" channel. You will find there a 5 part document about homelessness in Japan. czcams.com/video/eK--oCVP18A/video.html
@Garett Crook you have the problem backwards. The homeless in Japan are not a problem, not Japan doesn't have a problem of homelessness.
Out of the sixty or eighty homeless I saw downtown near major tourist spots (on one trip) only one tried beginning from me. They don't leave trash and will actually pick up other people's litter. I have no idea where they go to the bathroom, but they don't even seem to piss in ally ways. The homeless do not interact with "normal" people. No one seems to reach out to them, there are no homeless shelters, not re-entry programs, I am not even aware of a soup kitchen. The homeless population have no presence in Japanese society because they are ashamed to be homeless, and seen as less than human. A sort of wild animal that roams around, but doesn't bother anyone. If I were to guess part of the reason the homeless population is so low is because social pressure to keep a job is so high. That and the high suicide rate. I would rather have the chance to get in a homeless shelter and get a job again, but risk prison, than just be viewed as such an abject failure that I couldn't even commit suicide, and have no real chance to get back into society/work.
last time I went to Japan was in 2016 and homeless people definetely exist in Japan, they just sat under a bridge with a million business people and tourists walking past them. They didn't beg for money, didn't have a cardboard sign that said please help, they just sat almost blending in with the darkness. The only thing noticeable about them was the smell.
Im sorry to go off topic, but I wonder why you wrote "verboten" instead of "forbidden"? Are you german or is this word actually used by english speakers?
IndestructibleMadness Use of the word 'verboten' by non German people has the connotation of its use during WW11 Nazi regime.
Holly crap your channel is INCREDIBLE!
Someone from the US, connected to a Japanese University, randomly sent a Norwegian foreign student there, some pot cookies...she was then jailed for over a month without access to legal representation. And had her studies ruined. There is a stigma of being arrested in Japan. They don't care if you are guilty or not. The government of Norway got involved. Once her lawyers were able to meet with, and interview her, and investigate the facts and the investigation, the Japanese police had to drop the case. Another example of Japan's legal system losing face.
Ace Attorney gave me a soft version of the harshness of the Japanese legal system.
Persona 5 told it like it is.
So i guess the thing that Joker gets in interrogation is japan reality on police officers. Damn
I was thinking of that exact seen where they beat his ass in the jail cell, I didn’t actually think it was like that in Japan.
Fucking weebs.....
@@Sarcasshole shut the fuck up
hey you know what's up
I've lived here in Japan for more than a decade. Thank you for your fair and truthful analysis of Japan instead of drinking the kool-aid.
i was just coming to say the same thing, after 9 years here you see too many people who think Japan can do no wrong
@@hobonise it's because all these weebs want a waifu
What flavor was the kool-aid?
@@youwayo goku's penis
People are the same, basically shitty. How do you get Japanese people to act Japanese? Japanese penalties.
Very interesting! Thanks for making this.
The group mentality in Japan is awful
It's not group mentality, it's faith in the "system" whatever that is.
specifically its called a collectivist ideology. As a westerner myself I am inclined to agree. Japan take collectivism to a insane and somewhat disturbing degree.
Socialism at they finest
@Sushant Kumar why? What aspect of capitalism this collectivist system have?
@Sushant Kumar we are talking about the justice system, that is independent form the government and form the economy.
Japan is implementing socialism ideals in the court and because of this they legal system is broken.
Each individual need to be punish solely for his own act, not for a third party. What you will think if they charge you guilty because something the neighbor did?
I got a MasterClass ad for your dad.
I'm very glad, not even mad.
CodeKillerz same
I wonder if this is intentional
same
same
Japan's legal system: Mom, I got a 99% on my conviction rate, 😀😀😀!!!!
Asian Mom: What happened to the other 1%?????
JLS: It's like the other 99%s. The system doesn't allow for perfect scores.
Hiroto Miyama is working on the 1%. Sorry, the Japanese actually have a TV series about the issue...
@Al Castill poor you, i have 101% 😏
More like what about the .02%
But didn't they say it was 99.98% in the video? That's hardly the same as 99%.
Awesome Content as always!
I learned something, today. Huge respect to all of you guys
1) Good to see you shining a light on the more shameful and often ignored aspects of Japan
2) I like your narration and presentation style, it's slow and laid back and not in-your-face, it's less about you and more about the subject. Bravo.
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The moment you notice, that Kira killed a lot of innocent dudes
They were all guilty of being Cardassians!
*hands*
@@sethh8339 hes not talking about that kira
Only about 2,000 in Japan. Game Theory did a video on it.
Grubnar 🖖🏻
First time watching your vids and honestly my favorite part was the included end text lingering for longer than a second.
absolutely phenomenal video
Persona 5 suddenly makes a ton of sense lol
As do Light's ambitions. Not to mention L's methods of catching Kira
Yes, I though Sae was a bitch. Now I see she was just your average Japanese prosecutor. Still a bitch though.
@@ignacio4159 sae was in the process of becoming one of those prosecutors, but you stopped her before it really got out of control
Jesus, imaginé the amount of palaces that exist within the japanece jurodical system
@@ignacio4159 Hence the casino, dude. It's a rigged game.
Idk much about persona 5 besides some of the music but can someone explain this for me :)
The Japanese legal system is the Cardassian Union, the State is never wrong.
Go to Thailand it will nauseated the fuck out of you.
Yeah, and look where that got the Cardassians. Half their population killed, Cardassia scorched, and their Central Command uprooted.
I love reading Cardassian crime novels. It's not a spoiler that everyone turns out to be guilty, because they are always guilty; the fun is trying to figure out whom is guilty of what!
@@CardboardSliver well. That happened to Japan too.
@@CardboardSliver just like wwii...
Those captions are amazing.
If any of y'all are disillusioned by this, you should check out the judiciary preceding after the Murder of Furuta Junko.
I looked it up on wikipedia, and I dont see anything remarkable. What happened with Furuta?
@@whirlwind872 She was a Japanese teenager with a promising future who was kidnapped by fellow classmates, and Tortured to death over the course of 40somsthing days. The Murderers were only caught because a few of them were overheard bragging about it.
I won't go into the details of what they did to her, you can look them up, or imagine the very worst.
But her murderers we're all given light sentences, 3 received sentences of 5 years and one a sentence of 8 years if I remember correctly. All of whom are now free, with the exception of one who is back in prison for another murder/rape. The last known photo of them is smoking weed and enjoying themselves as free men.
@@snakey934Snakeybakey Punishment doesn't undo the crime. If the rate of that kind of stuff happening is low (relative to other countries), then the system is working.
It's the 0.2% bro haha
Eh i mean the 0.02%
suddenly Psycho-pass made a lot of sense.
It does add even more layers of meaning to why it tells the type of story that it does. Super smart too, since the series is clearly drawing parallels to thier actual society, yet framing it as a fictional future with non-existent technology being responsible... Rather than directly shaming and calling out the real life systems
@@doll_dress_swap1269 yea, they do that a lot in anime, social commentary underneath a cool story and setting
pip Pop especially the “do not question the system” mindset
So what you're saying is that the Judges are analogous to the psychopathic brains in the series?
Sibyl seems way more fair too, and that's dictatorship!
This legal system is basically the equivalent of
” I'm right cause’ I said so!”
It just works
The most unquestionable system because questioning it is unethical in it's culture
Inspectah Depressed underrated subcomment
More like I'm right because of my status/position.
Which isn't that strange when you think about it. Courts in the US for example decide what laws mean, even if that meaning is contrary to the wording.
Certain sciences do the same, they decide what is true by deciding what are the facts.
and I would also say the yakuza is way more responsible for the low crime rates then the justice system. If you commit a crime you better hope the justice system catches you and not the yakuza. They also take in a lot of youth that would otherwise become street criminals.
責める ( semeru ) verb
1. to condemn; to blame; to criticize; to criticise; to reproach; to accuse
2. to urge; to press; to pester
3. to torture; to torment; to persecute
Very well said 💯👏👏👏 thank you for being so articulate about the truth ☯️💯
The Olympics are in Tokyo in six months. There is potential for a lot of light to be cast on the Japanese justice system.
I would argue the opposite. In China they shut down industry near the Olympic stadium for like 3 months so the sky wouldn't be so black from pollution. Japan is quite a bit more dedicated to looking good, they would gather people up and exterminate them before they would allow strife during the games
I hope they lock up lots of criminal foreigners, especially bakachon and chankoro troublemakers.
They'll just play the clean up song and stuff it all under the rug and in the closet while the guests are here.
@@Carewolf Russia are idiots lol. I wouldn't trust Russia to cover up a table with a bed sheet. They'd forget the dog was sleeping under it and he would pull it all down
I'm sure they'll take one look at Baltimore, Detroit and Chicago and understand how wrong they've been lol.
Interesting topic. A Norwegian woman in Japan was arrested a couple of weeks ago for receiving a package with cookies containing drugs.
According to her family, she doesn't drink or do drugs.
After watching this, I know she's doomed. Innocent or not.
Unbelievable. Locking someone up for a victimless crime, regardless if they actually committed it.
Yeah my parents and family also didn’t think I drank or did drugs, nice try though
so, why did she received the package?
@Hoàng Nguyên Her family hired some super lawyer, but I don't know any more than that.
@@prototype2889 Who knows, does it matter? I find it very interesting that I could absolutely ruin any random Japanese person by sending them a letter with some drugs.
It's super fucked up.
an amazing video, straight to the point; all information was relevant. and we get to see the face of the voice not some stupid commentary over unrelated pictures.
Being Japanese and seeing it myself on the news and documentaries, this is super accurate.
Japan puts too much priority on group/social face than personal ones, seeing the occasional forced smile they put on so they can keep working to make ends meet is honestly maddening.
Because of this I have too much sense of personal freedom and aversion to becoming a part of the societal system (plus agoraphobia) that I only have a minor work I do from home for a friend as I receive minor income.
Japan is not an easy place to live, but I do love my country and I hope things improve.
Wow. I'm not even Japanese, I'm Canadian but I kind of see a bit of myself in you.
Maybe some of us are just born rebels :)
I actually heard this statistic before when CZcams recommended a video related to foreigners having issues in Japan and a Japanese lawyer fighting this injustice, the problem isn't that nobody is fighting against it, the problem is that nobody dares to openly speak up against it.
Capitalizing Every Word Doesn't Make Your Statement Any More Or Even Seem More Intelligent Compared To Leaving All The Words Uncapitalized And It Actually Takes More Effort To Capitalize All Of The Words Opposed To Not Doing So
Man fk the foreigners, they can leave anytime, the japanese natives got it tough they should be fighting that shit for themsevles
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Japan doesn't like foreigner did you see what the paul (yea that paul that goes to the forest in japan) he is not even forgiven
I was watching that awesome show called "the man in the high castle" that gave me an insight on how Japanese imperial law worked. Didn't know that this was so strong culturally.
"The nail that sticks out get's hammerd down"
"If they're not guilty then why were they accused?"
-Gus Johnson
Which video did he say that in?
@@iamnotinvolved1309 Reddit video
Because they're frammed by the real culprit?
That's fucking stupid tho, so is it guilty until proven innocent the running theme right now? That's twisted af.
Edit: just google him, he's a comedian, so this is sarcasm right?
The answer is , money . That's a fact in the USA. Look, even our president who is a citizen is not receiving due process . plus all things being said against him is hear say. I think the peoples of any country need to redu their justice system if you wanna call it that . How bout teaching people who commit an offense of small proportion to not reoffend and find out what's wrong .
Which it's wrong to lock up someone who has mental health issues just because people want money and or lock up . Nope your creating an animal who is 100 times higher risk to reoffend, plus be smarter at criminal behaviors or just down right vengeful blood thirsty . Thus wanting blood instead of acting out for help. Thank you and have a wonderful life.
"In a sense" sounds a heck of a lot like "innocence".
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“Enyis reached the city of Golden Flowing Water, which was at the time the most brutal domain in the world. For spitting in public there, one could lose a finger. It was a thirsty, conquering city that took many slaves, enjoyed the whip, and worshiped the sword.
Enyis was surprised to find the streets sparkling clean and orderly. The buildings were well constructed, airy, and it was scattered with well tended gardens redolent with many colorful flowers.
‘They must enrapture you with splendor,’ said the Boar King, who had noticed Enyis’ confusion. ‘Otherwise, you might look down and notice the blood-matted beast who shoulders this city, and your mind will fill with unpleasant truths.'”
- Enyis and the Fivefold Sword
Its interesting a few weeks ago I talked to a Japanese friend of mine about how I think a prison system which treats going to prison as the punishment instead of prison life being the punishment. She disagreed with me and I think thought I was a bit soft, I guess this explains it.
Psycho-pass becomes realistic a setting when you understand what this man described about the Japanese government
KNChoudhury does that mean Phoenix Wright is a false representation of the Japanese legal system?
@@creativeartstudios6792 Phoenix Wright is satire of the Japanese court system
Mr WizenWheat this correction appeared faster than anticipated. Thought I'd get a few hours before i got this response lol.
Psycho-pass is looking more like political satire than sci-fi with this new information...
Was searching this.tnk u!
It is easy, with all of its apparent modernity, to forget that Japan missed the renaissance and most of the industrial revolution - and was a feudal society into the 1860s. It is easy, for a foreigner, to be completely unaware of how much the feudal mindset still permeates Japanese society. Or to see the more visible aspects of it as quaint or "weird" but ultimately inconsequential.
Not gonna lie bud, I prefer their way. Been living in Japan for a little while now and it’s growing on me.
wayfaring stranger lets hope you never get in trouble due to unforeseeable circumstances.
@@jamesleon4883 I certainly hope so too mate.
@@wayfaringstranger5957 You can enjoy most of Japans culture and social norms while also disagreeing with the obviously horrible justice system
Ah yes, the "enlightened" west...with all its achievements(read: scams) like democracy, equality(on paper)... so much better. In fact so much better that most western countries won't make it past this century. A f-ing charade, all of it.
"Research what you see on youtube, Don't let anyone think for you" Good statment
I had a double major in Japanese Studies. Learning about laws in Japan had my jaw on the floor. Especially the laws for how you convict someone for rape
Wow, now that I heard all this, I might understand why prosecutors in games like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney are portrayed like they are: As people whose only desire is to get a guilty verdict, no matter what.
Yeah the games are defo based on Japan's system
Prosecutors are always like that. Lawyers are corrupt as shit everywhere. The main thing I notice about Phoenix Wright is the “guilty until proven innocent” thing, which is different from America.
@@cokebear1337 It's the exact same as in America. Only difference is the optics.
@@ninjacell2999 Fun fact, Japan had the "One guy decides the verdict" system during the first games development, and that was replaced with a jury of judges by the games release. They just never changed the games visual design to reflect the change.
@@cokebear1337 For example in Germany a criminal judge must actively determine whether the accused can actually be the culprit. If he has doubts as to what actually happened, he must have further investigations carried out. (This is called "Amtsermittlungsgrundsatz". :>)
The prosecutor is also obliged to investigate not only incriminating but also exonerating circumstances.
I had too much respect for Japan when I was younger for I’d studied Japanese mysticism & philosophy. I even considered living there. But after studying its social & legal system, I came to a conclusion that broke all my fancy dreams.
Japan is so beautiful to observe for most of the non Japanese.
Let them be so.
It's a nice place to visit yeah.
yeah robots are nice,clean and orderly but I would too like live outside the factory.
@@pawanadhikari7178 They also have a low birth rate one of the reason is Japanese people work 6 days a week in 10 hours a day it seems they are working himself to death
@@Mad-wv6ol
those are rookies numbers.
When I was working there I worked 12 hours 6 days work periods. The japanese regular workers even more. they seem to be utterly convinced that longer hours = productivity, when I was there they were just running around pretending to be busy and their subordinates were the ones doing the actual working.
@@johnzkeePW yeah, Japanese people are seemingly fantastic at "pretend work" for the sake of boosting their work hours, which is a HUGE contrast from where I live (Sweden) where if you're salaried rather than making an hourly wage, you're not gonna get chewed out by anyone for just working 4-6 hours some days as long as you actually make those 4-6 hours productive. Many Swedish companies measure productivity in how much work actually gets done per hour rather than how many hours someone works in a day.
Wonderfully written, the only concern I have is use of only one example. I love to travel and one day hope to experience the Japanese culture and as well as view landscape. In the mean time this is excellent food for thought that I will eventually research more in the future.
I just read the ending screen and its the best one i've seen like ever. make the bottom 3 times bigger, people need to read the last 3 Sentences
Your next episode should be on how Japan keeps their homicide statistics low by reporting the results of murders as "unclaimed bodies" rather then as "victims" and opening a case. A case that would make things official, not get solved, and thus bring down their average.
It's a weird category they're excelling in against all other national statistics especially since it's a classification most nations don't even have. It's like a whole county of people that just 'forgets' corpses face down in random ditches on the edge of town. Because that's a totally normal thing to have happen all the time.... :P
Soooo basically.... You can easily get away with murder so long as you know how to frame it that it would take some work to convict you? Scary thought.
Interesting
Crime stats are not always reflective of what's actually going on. Another big one is Sweden's supposedly sky-high rape rates. In reality the numbers are pushed up massively because kidnappers who rape someone repeatedly over a long time get charged for each invidual instance.
Just as terrorism is "part and parcel of living in a big city." ~Sadiq Khan, mayor of London
@@professionalmemeenthusiast2117 No, that's because Sweden imported the third world then blamed the victims.
This felt like hearing that Santa isn't real for the first time.
this,
It was shocking, but not surprising considering the history of Japan...
Esben M you know, all the raping, the inhumane human "experiments", the "first to kill 100 prisoners with a sword" contest, etc.
Never learn meet your idols kids they will always disappoint.
except do because otherwise you will fall into blind hero worship.
@Esben M Imperial Japan.
very interesting topic!!
I learnt the Japanese have a phrase "The nail that sticks out will be hammered down"
I thought that was an American phrase.
"They're not doing it because it's a mistake, they're doing it because it's their job"
@@GabrielMartinez-tc6yf Just like flat earthers, when you add just a moment of rational thought to this claim it becomes ridiculous lol
Jimmy Crickets idk dude, the Pope’s Minecraft server lookin kinda phresh doe.
@Jimmy Crickets If you become a pope, then you can beat them from the inside out. Double agent pope, see?
Bro no joke you don't even want to spend a night in a Japanese jail, you'll be crammed into a cell with 15 other prisoners who can't speak japanese and are from very poor areas of asia.
@Smoke Tree yeah a human definetly didnt write that
@@rubyruby7573 I can't help but notice your keyboard's run out of punctuation. You're welcome to use some from my buffer: (... ;; :: ?~! -- ,, )
@@rubyruby7573u mad bro?
@@rubyruby7573 you need a psych eval
South Park song: Well I'm in Japanese prison Lawd
Japanese prison got me down
Said I'm in Japanese prison Lawd
Don't belong here, my eyes are round.
2:50 that’s a perfect example of an collective culture, “loyalty to one’s group” it can be a family, society, or the whole country. To this day this culture is still very common in many Asian countries.
The end credits text made me cry :(
You really nailed it when you mentioned Confucianism as the root cause of this cultural refusal to question authority. You see the same pattern in Singapore, China, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong (though the latter 3 have moved significantly towards having a quasi-western ability to challenge the authorities in the face of injustice - think the democratization of S.Korea and the current HK protests).
And sadly, it is so ingrained that many (particularly the older generation or the less-educated) are either silent, or actively complicit in their own subjugation.
I dunno about the others but I know Korea well. Korea is 100% influenced by Confuciuism but definitely influenced by Western society as well. Peaceful democratic protests are common. There is much debate between different parties. People have a wide range of opinions and are quite vocal about it
I have lived in korea all my life and i can tell you that like 99% of all koreans hate their authorities with a burning passion. Maybe it's just a different strain of Confucianism. Maybe it's the more chaotic and painful modernization process. Whatever it is, we all have mistrust and skepticism about our government.
@@hyointheforest Oh I agree. I actually studied a lot about the Korean experience of moving from authoritarianism democracy - it took a lot of things acting together to overcome the cultural bias towards submitting to authorities (the Gwangju Massacre is perhaps the most obvious example), and arguably also the western influences of religion (many authors point to Christianity as playing a role) as well as the liberal leanings of the university-educated. To me, South Korea is one of the success stories of enlightenment over the cultural imprisonment of Confucianism.
@Hoàng Nguyên The risk of being a successful socialist country is that there is always the chance the U.S. will come to kick your shit in to prove socialism doesn't work.
Confucianism is a double edged sword.
It also emphasizes that authority must be benevolent to the subordinate and ensure the prosperity of the people. Also access to education and the importance of knowledge and studying.
Sure it's sexist against women and emphasizes heirarchy, but so are people in the west. They just pretend there's no heirarchy and women are equal.
Western universalism.
We'll see what Phoenix Wright has to say about that... *objection*
or, what we`ve learned: Phoenix Wright couldn`t exist in Japan!
One of the reason Phoenix Wright was such a phenomenon in Japan is that it portrayed something that didn't really happen there.
@@--ART3MIS-- Phoenix Wright lives in an alternate version of Los Angeles tho
@@FrenchToast663 only in the English dubs. He's based in Toyko in the original Japanese releases
@@thomasm.creamer2728 An unnamed city presumed to be Tokyo.
What a great video to watch as a foreigner living in Japan...
I remember watching this video the 1st time around, I had a really really bad toothache and was distracted so here I am 5 months later watching it again with no toothache
Huh. A video on Japan. Where the journey with this channel started couple of years ago. At least, for me.
Just, as horrifying.
Now, I wonder, what I might not know about my home country. It's easy to see the far away place of extremes and gawk at them, but...
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi that’s a very humble and open-minded way of looking at it
Better not let the state catch you talking shit man you might get convicted
Nice insight. Some people talk like it's their duty to fix other countries, while neglecting their own.
@@krunkle5136 I'm glad you have found it useful.
And, well, even on a personal level... Our own problems often may feel insurmountable, while those of others seem like something, that can be easily (and already should've been) fixed. Both assumptions are biased, but reverse probably wouldn't be true either.
We may have a lot to learn from outsider perspective and their trust in our strength to deal with our problems, while they would appreciate us for not diminishing both their problems _and_ the efforts, put into dealing with those.
You are an above average specimen of Humanity.
Literally everything about this does not sound good at all.
I tell ya h'what
Hank Hill I agree, hank hill from tv show king of the hill
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@Jai Rey did you not watch the video?
Jai Rey are you an idiot?
Very interesting analysis.
Is some of this filmed in Okinawa? It looks really similar.
I had heard that Phoenix Wright was a critical parody of Japan's law system but I never knew it was actually T H A T bad >_>
Same. I'm sad to admit that game is how I found out about this
Now I understand why Carlos Ghosn escaped from Japan
And since japan hates foreigners, the charges were probably bullshit.
bluewater Carlos was so guilty! Check the story of his mariage at Versailles !
He escaped because he s rich and because he could!
@@tatsumakimojo5502 He was already rich. An extravagant marriage is not a crime. That's not evidence at all. Typical Japanese.
They kept releasing him and re arresting him and had over a year to try him. This was a shake down operation. I don't blame the guy.
son like father, his father georges was a muderer (he assessinated Boulos Massaad his business partner both involved in counterfeit money)
@@tatsumakimojo5502 So what if he was guilty? The Japanese justice system is a joke. Whatever he had done he deserved a fair and impartial court case. He did not get anything like that. It does not seem like anyone is getting that in Japan.
Frankly I think he was innocent. I have not faith in the Japanese justice system. They seem able to just make up charges. With such a system you never have any confidence that there is any truth to the allegations.
I believe INNOCENT until proven otherwise. Hence I will believe Carlos is innocent until a sane justice system can evaluate the case.
Wow I have to read that crime and punishment book for my summer reading
end credit is super hilarious