Crime & Punishment in Japan

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(1) Japan’s prisons |  Eastern Porridge; Even Japanese criminals are orderly and well-behaved.
http://www.economist.com/news/as ... ed-eastern-porridge

Quote:

"Japan incarcerates its citizens at a far lower rate than most developed countries: 55 per 100,000 people compared with 149 in Britain and 716 in America [consistently No 1 in the world].

"Detectives tracking down an anonymous hacker extracted separate [false]  confessions from four innocent people before being forced in December into a humiliating apology.

Note:
(a) Chiba Prefecture 千葉県
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiba_Prefecture
(capital: City of Chiba 千葉市; section 1 Etymology)
is on the Tokyo's right.
(b) The photo accompanying the text in print (and still print of the video in the online version) is Main Gate, Chiba Prison 千葉刑務所 正門.
(c) The article mentions "deputy warden, Hiroyuki SHINKAI."
信海 博憲 (warden is 刑務所長 (pronunciation: keimushō-chō))


(2) 大井真理子, 记者来鸿：日本人为什么无辜也认罪？ BBC CHinese, Jan 11, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ocent_confess.shtml

, which is translated from

Mariko Ōi, Japan Crime: Why do innocent people confess?  BBC, Jan 2, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20810572