Japanese prosecutors conduct remote questioning due to pandemic

Investigative statements still need to be signed or stamped by people of interest prior to submission

No matter how advance technology they used hanko still be needed.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/01/18/national/prosecutors-forced-my-confession-indicted-ozawa-aide/

At least now it less likely that confession is being forced online. With this new way is there any chance that lawyer is present?

I am not comfortable by this development.

A person should not be held for 23 days, and should be questioned face to face with legal representation present.

I wonder whose privacy is being protected here, the accused or the states. Remote interviews allow for recordings and that lends itself to transparency. Something most judicial systems really don’t like in this day and age.

It’s a basic human ‘right of the accused to be provided the opportunity to confront their accusers’ going back to the U.S. 6th & 14th Amendments, English and Roman Law. - Who wants to appeal to cold, unflinching cameras & television monitors ?

I was reluctantly impressed until I read this:

Investigative statements still need to be signed or stamped by people of interest prior to submission by mail to the district public prosecutors' office that conducted the questioning, the sources said.

What, did Japan run out of biometric readers? Lunacy.

The prosecutors don’t want to get sick, what’s wrong with that? The person they are grilling lives in group containment type facility. And are by definition disgusting individuals. I Know they prosecutors have minimal office space and are probably more likely to get a pathogen from their co- workers, but I agree best to blame the marginal people.

You have a point, @BubonamJustinKayce 8:32-9:05am: It’s their land, their officials. It’s basically beaten into the Japanese people from early family life through the school systems and into the workplace not to be confrontational. So, it’s seems they would also be reluctant in their adult lives to confront their government and demand a ‘Right of Confrontation’, inherit to most constitutions of the other G7 nations.

Japan is fine for ‘putting on show for the world’, joining other democracies for ‘economic governance’ but let’s just overlook Japan’s lack of internal ‘transparency’ and inconsistent ‘rule of law’ for it’s citizens and foreign residents ?

*- [8:20 am: A person should not be held for 23 days, and should be questioned face to face with legal representation present.*] -

*- **@BubonamJustinKayce 9:00am:“According to who’s rules & laws? Japan is not the US. Yet people keep expecting them to follow rights ordained by the US. *

“I don’t like it or agree with it anymore than the next, but I respect their sovereignty and their laws while I’m in their country and do not expect them to change due to my opinion.” -

*- [snowymountainhell 8:32am: It’s a basic human ‘right of the accused to be provided the opportunity to confront their accusers’ going back to the U.S. 6th & 14th Amendments, English and Roman Law. - Who wants to appeal to cold, unflinching cameras & television monitors ?] -*

*- **@BubonamJustinKayce 9:05am: “A basic human right, as according to the US Constitution, which ends at the Borders of the US! - This is Japan, different laws and different definitions of what’s to be considered a human “right”. Just because some old parchment in a far away land says something is so, doesn’t mean it is.” -*

(Hope you enjoyed the slopes this weekend. Japan does have excellent skiing.)

A person should not be held for 23 days, and should be questioned face to face with legal representation present.

According to who’s rules & laws? Japan is not the US. Yet people keep expecting them to follow rights ordained by the US.

I don’t like it or agree with it anymore than the next, but I respect their sovereignty and their laws while I’m in their country and do not expect them to change due to my opinion.

The "This is Japan" has been a get out clause for many years regarding Japans disgusting, biased, rule of law and hostage justice system. Japanese prosecutors and imbecile judges don't even follow their own countries constitution and CCP.

It is time for Japan to act like a Sovereign State with regards to it's law.

what will happen to the confessions if the beatings stop?

Investigative statements still need to be signed or stamped by people

Read as FORCED CONFESSIONS still need to be signed WITHOUT A LAWYER PRESENT.

Due to security concerns, prosecutors are not allowed to use Zoom or other videoconferencing services, the sources said, adding the remote system introduced in 2020 is connected to internal networks.

security concerns? or maybe prosecutors are not too keen on a video being leaked out of how these interrogations take place.

Allow a lawyer behind the camera

Residents of Japan can change the law