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What I tell you three times is true.
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@unrepentantAuthor I can't dispute that. Quick Googling didn't reveal any answers (though I learned Wikipedia's page on "Attornies in Japan" puts Phoenix Wright in the "See also" section). I found a collection of PDFs from Japan's Ministry of Finance detailing the national budget, but FY2019's draft budget doesn't mention any sort of law enforcement outside of military spending and police disaster response funding. But it's a bunch of complicated charts and graphs, so I might be misreading it. Or maybe prosecutors get their paychecks from provincial budgets, but that'd be a LOT of different budgets to sort through. I'll write an analysis if someone gives me a research grant.
However, the hyperlink I attached to my claim of a 99.9% conviction rate is an interview between two Japanese legal scholars, and neither of them mention budget. They bring up "the suspension of around 60 percent of criminal cases in Japan without an indictment"...but from following the Ghosn case, it seems you don't need a court date to spend months or even years in jail. The scholars also mention more systemic issues; Japan's modern constitution was written directly after WWII and incorporated many "western" shifts (something about a bomb), but in the phrasing of one of the scholars, "it wasn’t a clean break". Stuff slipped through the cracks while reconstructing their legal system, and they ended up with an unfocused mess. It's not efficiently democratic (only 1 in 1000 not guilty after going to trial), it's not efficiently authoritarian (most cases don't get to trial). It's just there, created from serious culture clash, and it seems the prosecution got the lion's share of power. Whether the budget plays into it, that's a research problem for Ace Attorney's writers.
Shifting gears, I got a question of my own: what Pokémon moves can safety seal a metal door? Specific situation occurs with people nearby and the door needs to be sealed ASAP. First thought was something Fire-type, but that seems awfully risky given the environment. I haven't decided which Pokémon's sealing the door, though they'd need to fit in a human-sized room full of furniture.
However, the hyperlink I attached to my claim of a 99.9% conviction rate is an interview between two Japanese legal scholars, and neither of them mention budget. They bring up "the suspension of around 60 percent of criminal cases in Japan without an indictment"...but from following the Ghosn case, it seems you don't need a court date to spend months or even years in jail. The scholars also mention more systemic issues; Japan's modern constitution was written directly after WWII and incorporated many "western" shifts (something about a bomb), but in the phrasing of one of the scholars, "it wasn’t a clean break". Stuff slipped through the cracks while reconstructing their legal system, and they ended up with an unfocused mess. It's not efficiently democratic (only 1 in 1000 not guilty after going to trial), it's not efficiently authoritarian (most cases don't get to trial). It's just there, created from serious culture clash, and it seems the prosecution got the lion's share of power. Whether the budget plays into it, that's a research problem for Ace Attorney's writers.
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Shifting gears, I got a question of my own: what Pokémon moves can safety seal a metal door? Specific situation occurs with people nearby and the door needs to be sealed ASAP. First thought was something Fire-type, but that seems awfully risky given the environment. I haven't decided which Pokémon's sealing the door, though they'd need to fit in a human-sized room full of furniture.