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001356009 035__ $$a(OCoLC)747797873
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001356009 24500 $$aJustice$$h[electronic resource] :$$bJapan style /$$cproduced by Ian Altschwager for Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
001356009 260__ $$aNew York, NY :$$bFilmakers Library,$$c2006.
001356009 300__ $$a1 online resource (25 min.).
001356009 500__ $$aOriginally released as DVD.
001356009 500__ $$aTitle from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
001356009 520__ $$aAlmost every person charged with committing a serious crime in Japan is convicted and goes to jail. Jury trials simply do not exist and convictions are based on confessions. Some believe that Japanese criminal court cases are simply ceremonies to impose punishment rather than determine guilt. The filmmaker obtained rare access to Japan's jails, where a cruel, secret system allows the abuse, torture and death of inmates. Prisons have spartan conditions and extremely strict rules; prisoners can be kept in solitary confinement for decades, others live eight to a room. In the last ten years there have been close to 250 suspicious deaths in custody. The film recounts the tragic ordeal of Sakae Menda who spent thirty-four years on death row after he confessed to a crime he did not commit, a confession obtained following six days of sleep deprivation and beatings. His testimony is powerful evidence of the flaws in Japan's justice system where reform is unlikely and Western notions of human rights are relatively new.
001356009 521__ $$aFor College; Adult audiences.
001356009 546__ $$aEnglish.
001356009 60010 $$aMenda, Sakae,$$d1925$$xTrials, litigation, etc. 
001356009 650_0 $$aCriminal justice, Administration of$$zJapan.
001356009 650_0 $$aLaw enforcement$$zJapan.
001356009 650_0 $$aPrisoners$$xAbuse of$$zJapan.
001356009 655_7 $$aDocumentary films.$$2lcgft
001356009 7001_ $$aAltschwager, Ian.
001356009 7102_ $$aAustralian Broadcasting Corporation.
001356009 7761_ $$cOriginal$$w(OCoLC)747797873
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001356009 980__ $$aSTREAMING
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001356009 982__ $$aStreaming Video
001356009 983__ $$aOnline