Why Japan Arrests Foreigners

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1. Get Arrested. 2. Learn Japanese in Japanese Jail. 3. Write a book about your experience. 4. Profit.

So in japan your guilty until proven guilty

Finally someone who talks about the other side of Japan. It's crazy that confessing to a crime you didn't commit will get you out of jail faster.

I lived in Japan for 3 years. Plenty of times I got stopped by police randomly, many times even undercover police. I remember one time, I was riding my japanese friend's bike around Osaka, when police stops me and starts searching my bags etc, seeing my ID and asking lots of questions. Then they asked me where the bike came from. I told them it was my friends' bike. They took me to the police station and detained me for an hour, still asking me where did I took the bike from. I didn't have a functioning phone number at the time so I could not call my friend so they told me they were going to follow me to my friends house to confirm this. The whole walk through the Shotengai (shopping street) was super awkward, and I was the center of attention for everyone as I was a foreigner followed closely by two police officers. We got to my friends house and they were extremely polite with her and apologizing time and time again to HER and not even a word to me. I love Japan tho but the justice system and how policemen go around at foreigners is something that annoys the fu** out of me. I never been to jail in Japan but two very close friends I made there spent months in jail for very simple and almost insignificant crimes, like the onigiri situation the lawyer describes. So, If you are a foreigner living in Japan or wanting to go to Japan be VERY careful how you behave and if you like doing drugs don't even think about having anything on you, specially in big cities like Osaka and Tokyo where there's a lot of undercover policemen.

If Logan Paul didn't get arrested in Japan I think I'm gonna be ok

This is crazy. Why would people pay a thousand dollars for a flight to japan, and shoplift a 1 dollar rice ball?

That Lawyer is awesome! Really well spoken and straight forward. Well done.

Here is a novel idea - don’t break the fucking law . I’ve lived in Japan for 33 years , and have never been arrested .

"Are you going to confess?" "No, I'm innocent." "Sorry, I phrased that the wrong way. When are you going to confess?"

"How long you been in here?" "26 years." "What are you in for?" "They thought I threw a gum wrapper on the street."

It is worth noting that Japan is condemned for the length of the detainment allowed, the 23 days. There are also valid criticism that confessions are coerced during that extremely lengthy time. Amnesty International, for example, has a lot of material about it.

I recalled the case of Julian Adame, the American student held for more than 9 months . Well, I love Japan culture and tradition. My wife and I are about to buy a pretty house in urban area of Tokyo for semi-retirement but now I have to highly reconsider, we never do anything wrong in our entire life but their legal system is scary.

The scariest thing about this is that Japan's conviction rate is 99%.

I have a feeling the lawyer was really just saying discreetly and carefully, "you are f***ed".

Thanks for sharing this, I watched this before we visited Japan and was good to know these details. I felt safe the entire time when I was in Japan and as I don't think, I think was less likely to get into issues with people in bars etc.

wow the Japanese lawyers English is so good and so smooth like i applaud that 👏🏻

That lawyer's English is so fluent. I give him mad props for his command of English conversation skill.

The police will have their hands full during the Olympics.

This is great! As a lawyer it’s interesting to see the differences between the American and Japanese legal systems.