Japan Needs a Real Right to Silence

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November 18, 2025

Japan Needs a Real Right to Silence
Japan Needs a Real Right to Silence

Volume 23

Keywords: right to silence, duty to endure interrogation, Japanese criminal justice, judges, police, prosecutors

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About the author:

David T. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the author of many works on Japanese criminal justice, including The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan (Palgrave Macmillan,2020), and Japan’s Prosecution Review Commission: On the Democratic Oversight of Decisions Not to Charge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), both of which were also published in Japanese by Iwanami Shinsho.

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus is a peer-reviewed publication, providing critical analysis of the forces shaping the Asia-Pacific and the world.

    About the author:

    David T. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the author of many works on Japanese criminal justice, including The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan (Palgrave Macmillan,2020), and Japan’s Prosecution Review Commission: On the Democratic Oversight of Decisions Not to Charge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), both of which were also published in Japanese by Iwanami Shinsho.

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