The Lucie case and Japanese justice: by @jakeadelstein et al

@MikeBurkeJapan I spoke with Ichikawa, the ex-prosecutor who blew the whistle on prosecutorial misconduct. It was enlightening

2011-06-20 20:26:02

@MikeBurkeJapan I'm afraid that you may be right.

2011-06-20 20:26:23

Q: Are the Japanese police quick to investigate murders of blond foreign women? (After the Lucie case) but less likely for Japanese women?

2011-06-20 20:22:40

Obara Joji sued Richard Parry three times for libel and kept losing. The joys of investigative journalism in the modern age. Sigh....

2011-06-20 20:27:29

Richard Parry on how has writing the book changed him: "It's made me more wary and suspicious of judging other people."

2011-06-20 20:29:57

@MikeBurkeJapan Reading your article makes my blood boil. Did anyone launch a criminal complaint with the police?

2011-06-20 20:30:33

@jakeadelstein the worst case I heard of was a kid who was refused water was thrown so hard he got a subdural haemorrhage.

2011-06-20 20:29:31

@jakeadelstein The teacher (who threw him) panicked and didn't know what to do. So he locked him in the broom cupboard and left him to die

2011-06-20 20:30:27

@jakeadelstein no prosecution

2011-06-20 20:30:37

@MikeBurkeJapan And the teacher wasn't prosecuted?

2011-06-20 20:30:53

@jakeadelstein Yes, it wasn't the police, public prosecution refused to put it to court, in every case. Even though the ombudsman intervened

2011-06-20 20:33:47

@MikeBurkeJapan That's horrific. Thank you for sharing this with me. I think I need to ask some questions to the Ministry of Education.

2011-06-20 20:31:46

@jakeadelstein also, every newspaper bar Japan times refuses to publish, even after sending journalists to interview

2011-06-20 20:35:44

@jakeadelstein The sumo death WAS prosecuted. Tokitsukaze oyakata is sentenced to 6 years in prison. Or are u referring to some other case?

2011-06-20 20:42:24

@david_z There were others. That was the first one.

2011-06-20 21:57:34

@jakeadelstein Exactly. A positive development. Or in other words, injustice did *not* persist. Some sacred taboos did *not* go untouched.

2011-06-20 23:08:08

@david_z yes. Sometimes there is justice.

2011-06-20 23:26:09

@jakeadelstein Well not tonight there isn't. Your misleading sumo b.s. gets retweets galore while my correction is read by nobody. ;)

2011-06-20 23:55:22

@david_z Grr...I will issue a correction.

2011-06-21 00:09:28

Correction: There have been many suspicious sumo deaths that were never investigated. There has been one successful prosecution. Apologies.

2011-06-21 00:10:07

Thanks to @david_z for setting the record straight. While many suspicious deaths of sumo wrestlers have never been prosecuted there was one.

2011-06-21 00:12:32

@jakeadelstein Cheers!

2011-06-21 00:53:01