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TARA TAN KITAOKA
More crimes repeating themselves ???.
garypen
A major point that most of the commenters here don't seem to grasp.
AgentX
This way of currying favour with citizens is morally low, and lacks backbone. Pretty much everything about the monarchy is. So much mental illness in one place (the monarchy, those who adore it, those who use it as a weapon to control the public, and the public that is subsequently controlled by it).
What a joke! But nothing unusual in a nation where the people so easily give over and welcome a future of suffering.
Ex_Res
After a question was raised by a member of the Foreign Press, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that he didn’t like to comment on individuals but that he could confirm that Carlos Ghosn would not not included in the 550,000.
Carlos Ghosn has not even been on trail yet so is therefore not guilty of anything to be pardoned for.
Norman Goodman
If the justice system is not geared to reform, then it is not a justice system...it is a vengeance system. Forgiveness is part of the reform process, even such a wild card as this. I guarantee that for most of you, just being in a court room with the rest of your life in the balance would reform you fast. I support his decision on the basis of justice. But I denounce it as a means of garnering support for the monarchy.
Blattamexiguus
And guaranteed they will only be J nationals.
minor foreigner infractions won't be forgiven.
Blattamexiguus
Bollocks.
do the crime, do the time.
shogun36
Why?
To fill out worker rosters at the local combini?
If their crimes were so "petty" why were they even arrested then?
DNALeri
According to my dictionary "penal servitude" is "the punishment of being sent to prison and forced to do hard physical work" and "imprisonment" is "being locked up or kept somewhere, usually in prison." Does Japan still have hard physical labour punishment? Like Gulag-style? All prisoners in Japan are forced to work anyway, aren't they? I'm just curious.
Yubaru
TEN MILLION? That means that 1 in 13 or so were convicted criminals? I know, I know, the majority are traffic related "crimes" and while they may have "broken" the law, traffic violations dont stay on one's records forever.
If they did, no one here would have a "gold" license ever, well with the exception of the paper-drivers!
MrHeisei
After a question was raised by a member of the Foreign Press, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that he didn’t like to comment on individuals but that he could confirm that Carlos Ghosn would not not included in the 550,000.
John Beara
I'm really confuse here
Theft 2.6 percent.
Causing death 17.4 percent.
If you killed someone... you should do your time. No pardon.
Numan
Will they pardon the foreigners too!
How will they verify that someone's job prospects have been impacted? How are they going to decide those most deserving of the pardons?
Ganbare Japan!
Good for Japan. It shows a society that is ready to rehabilitate and forgive criminals, and accept them back into society. As Suga-san argues:
If these 550,000 criminals have shown remorse and regret, they deserve a second chance at having civil rights. That is what a just society does. Its not like 30 years ago, when 10 Million criminals were pardoned.
Chip Star
followed by those convicted of causing death or injury in traffic accidents at 17.4 percent
I would need to know whether those convicted were negligently driving before I could agree this was reasonable. People were injured or killed, after all.