“NO HUMAN RIGHTS IN JAPAN”

That is, as you say ordinances. Laws are set on a national basis.

There are local regulations of where you can build a house, which streets are one way, where you can park your car. Things which obviously belong on a local level. But those are not laws.

Why should it be OK in one city to “peek up a skirt” where in another it isn’t? These kind of laws belong to nation wide laws, It shouldn’t be a local regulation.

Anyway, drifting off topic

Three of the four examples you give specifically single out terrorism suspects, not normal suspects. Can you show that these periods also hold for other crime?

“As for the accurate description of Japan’s criminal procedure, read stereo’s comment.

I am sick and tired of foreigners in Japan campaigning for gaijin rapist, calling Japanese female victim a liar, covering up the facts, condemning unfairly Japanese criminal procedure.”

Seems like we’re fated to hold our discussion based on stereo’s comments. But as one other point: I would just like to point out that no matter how many other countries you compare Japan with, that doesn’t make Japanese criminal law any better. Your comments suggest that Japanese detention procedures are common compared to other countries–a claim I am skeptical of for the same reasons Tempura and Overthinker are skeptical. Whether or not they are common, that doesn’t make them any less troubling.

(And I’m afraid I couldn’t follow your last paragraph at all there–”campaigning for gaijin rapist, calling Japanese female victim a liar, covering up the facts.” I don’t understand.)

The police use pressure tactics and always have the threat of formal arrest

Could you cite a paper or something?Or is it from your experience?

there is a good chance interrogation can take place almost without limit until charges, for a period of 23 up to an indefinite number of days.

How can you detain a person for an indefinite number of days? Even supposing what you said is true as for the way police use the law, the law limit the number of days for the detention.
Are you just talking figuratively?

Courts allow numerous restrictions on lawyer-suspect interaction under the guise of ensuring it doesn’t “obstruct the investigation.”

Why does the court allow the lawyer-suspect interaction? because the suspect has right, no?
You wrote

“You have no constitutional right to a lawyer before the end of this period.”

stereo wrote

Article 34 of Constitution of Japan
“No person shall be arrested or detained without being at once informed of the charged against him or without the immediate privilege of counsel”.

You were wrong.

You can hire one yourself, but few know that they can do so

Any statistics on the number of people who knew that they can do so.
For your reference

当番弁護士制度（とうばんべんごしせいど）とは、刑事事件で逮捕された者（被疑者）が、起訴される前の段階であっても、弁護士を通じた弁護権の行使を円滑に行うことができるようになることを目的に、日本弁護士連合会（日弁連）により提唱・設置された制度である・・・当番弁護士による初回の接見を無料で行うことができ・・・、刑事事件で逮捕された人の約4割にあたる6万3千人が本制度を利用するに至っている。

A suspect who fights and opposes the police investigation is seen to be less willing to rehabilitate. This is the reason why many defense lawyers actually counsel their clients to confess (if they even have access to them before a confession is signed). It’s quite different from an American legal system.

Interesting hypothesis. The problem is that it is just your speculation.

With all due respect, I also would like to know your professor’s name.
Are you talking about just your speculation different from your professor’s but just wanted to make your comment look cool by referring to the professor?

It is important to be careful about the abuse of power in any country, but my impression is that Japanese criminal system and its practice have been given more undue criticisms than other similar systems in Europe and North America by English media— without citing any reliable comparative studies.

And perhaps I trust J cops more than you do:they have never arrested me, I’ve never have troubles with them and they have been helpful when I ask an direction;though,it does not mean that you can trust cops in Japan without reservation as in any country.

(I stated my opinion about the relation between the conviction rate and false confession in Japan on another thread.
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=4759)

“起訴するまでの取り調べを可視的にして、被疑者側に多くの防御手段を保障し、より対等な起訴前手続きを構築することは精密司法の課題かもしれない”

Which is what much of the discussion here has been about.

I have to say that the Youtuber has SORT of a relevant point – Japanese arrest & jail is no joke, and nothing like in the States or Europe.

You get solitary confinement no matter what the crime.

I know an Israeli who was locked upp for 3 months (!) or 90 days with no lawyer or outside contact.

Seemed a little too much.

DON’T GET ARRESTED IN JAPAN ! A warning.

I would think that indefinite detention comes under this comment quite nicely. And if the author says these are issues that need addressing then the ideal is definitely not being followed.

George, it seems you have nothing to support your argument except saying “my professor told me so”. Pity on you. If you want to learn laws, you should read the laws and cases, rather than parroting want your teacher says without skepticism.

Give me the name of the professor. I will kick him/her out of your university, so that no more victims like you will be produced. Think of it. Your brain is now filled with garbage that will not work in real world. No company interested in Japan will hire you because your “expert advice” will create more trouble for them than solve their situation in Japan. And you cannot possibly tell which of your knowledge about Japan is true and which is false. Think of your lost opportunity and your tuition.