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Japanese Criminal Justice System

JAPAN AND THE JAPANESE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

This research examines the practice of criminal justice in Japan. The findings of this examination are presented in three major discussions·Japanese society and culture, crime in Japan, and the Japanese criminal justice system.

Background information on Japanese society and culture is provided as a basis for understanding the functions of criminal justice in the country. Information is presented within the contexts of (1) population and religion, (2) the political system, and (3) culture and social controls.

Japan is an Asian island nation whose 122 million inhabitants occupy four major islands and a number of smaller islands (Hunter 804). As a political entity, the country dates back to about 500 B.C.

The Japanese population is remarkably homogeneous in an ethnic context (Hunter 806). Ethnic Japanese account for 99.5 percent of the country's citizens, while most of the remaining one-half of one-percent are ethnic Koreans. Approximately 885,000 foreigners reside in Japan, while approximately 498,000 Japanese citizens reside outside of the country. Adjusting for these residence patterns still leaves the resident population of Japan 98.4 percent ethnically Japanese.

Japan, in the last-quarter of the twentieth century, is "the most thoroughly unified and culturally homogeneous large bloc of people in the a world, with the possible exception of the North Chinese" (Reischauer 34), where the population is almost exclusively Han. Any significant infusion of new ethnic strains into the Japanese population ceased in the eighth century, when the Ainu began to be absorbed into the country's dominant ethnic group. Out of an ethnic Japanese population of 121.7 million, less than 20 thousand Ainu survive as a culturally identifiable population group.

Japan is also highly unified in a religious context (Hunter 810). Although the country has no official state religion, appr...

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Japanese Criminal Justice System. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 11:05, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1695870.html