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Will Wrongful Convictions Be a Catalyst for Change in Japanese Criminal Justice?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Matthew Carney  and
David T. Johnson
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Abstract

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The Asia Pacific Journal presents a link to an extraordinary 12-minute video by Matthew Carney of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation discussing the death penalty and the problem of wrongful convictions in Japanese criminal justice. This video explains what went wrong in three cases involving men who were victimized in the worst kind of way by Japan's criminal justice system, and it raises the possibility that these cases could stimulate reform in Japan's system of capital punishment and in the criminal justice system more generally.

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Research Article
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 6 , February 2015 , e1
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