Unlike the inferior systems practised in other lesser countries the Japanese judicial system is uniquely simple and is best described by two defining rules.
1: If you are poor, ordinary or otherwise of no consequence you are guilty and will be fucked.
2: If you are any of the following: A bureaucrat, a politician, a member of an “erai” profession or just plain rich you are either innocent or couldn’t help it.
If you belong to group 2 you may rape and murder hostesses in Roppongi quite freely.
You may be responsible for the deaths of others – as long as those “others” belong to group 1 and not group 2.
You’ll only get a suspended sentence for that.
Stalking? No problem if you’re a bureaucrat or she’s a foreigner or otherwise of no consequence..
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080809a2.html
Another suspended sentence? What a surprise!
If the members of group 1 are dirty, homeless, sick or otherwise useless a member of group 2 may kill upwards of 500 and still only receive 2 years in jail….suspended.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV-tainted_blood_scandal_(Japan)
This is as equally serious as a member of group 1 stealing a ¥98 eraser.
In simple math:
Failure to pay a traffic violation fine may result in a prison term calculated at one day per ¥5,000 of penalty.
Eg. a ¥60,000 fine would result in a 12 day stay in a detention centre. A prison.
If one day = ¥5,000 then two years = ¥3,650,000 (5000 x 730)
Therefore a prison sentence of two years for the causing the deaths of 500 people in the HIV scandal works out at…..a ¥7,300 fine per death (3.650,000÷500).
Things are much clearer in simple math.
