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Justice Japan style / produced by Ian Altschwager for Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
LIBRA DVD 002 679
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Japan.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Prisoners--Abuse of.
- Law enforcement.
- Japan.
- Law enforcement--Japan.
- Trials--Japan.
- Trials.
- Judicial error--Japan.
- Judicial error.
- Prisoners--Abuse of--Japan.
- Prisoners.
- Menda, Sakae, 1925-2020.
- Menda, Sakae.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, [2005]
- Language Note:
- In English and Japanese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Examines the perceived flaws of the Japanese criminal justice system, from the lack of jury trials and questionable interrogation tactics to prisoner abuse. The film also recounts the story of Sakae Menda who was detained on death row for thirty-four years after confessing to a crime he did not commit.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 70691566
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