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Forcing women to be interrogated without bras could give them a sense of shame, making it difficult to execute their right of defense.

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An Osaka Bar Association official. Osaka prefectural police have decided to permit female suspects to wear bra tops in detention cells after deciding the underwear, comprising a T-shirt and brassiere, cannot be used as a weapon.

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What the HELL???? Oh forget it! japan needs to be thrown in with other despotic regimes like China and the Phillipines. This is not a country that knows ANYTHNING about human rights. Hell, there are middle eastern countries are better than this?

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biggest joke

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They used to burn bras in the 60s to be liberated.

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Every year, for a few weeks after jan 1st, I just can't get the date right. Someone remind me:

Is it 2019 or 1019?

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Struggling to understand how underwear could have ever been seen as a weapon. But this is Japan - normal logic does not apply.

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This is proof that the police learns everything from manga, because in manga there's a story about a woman using the wiring in her bra to kill people

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