These miscarriages of justice are what you expect in countries that doesn't conform to popular modern thinking. I don't really like to name names here, but military dictatorships and countries run by other systems of government than democracy would seem to be candidates here. I wouldn't have expected this to have happened in Japan, in all honesty.
I love the way that the video games industry is using this game to point out a thorny issue, that most western people are completely oblivious to - it is a very cunning ploy and a great use of symbolism. Does it mean that anything will happen to improve the lives of those currently tangled in the judicial system at present? Probably not, but they do need major reforms to a very corrupt system of legal procedure that seems too over burdened to continue in any sort of effective manner.
I love the way that the video games industry is using this game to point out a thorny issue, that most western people are completely oblivious to - it is a very cunning ploy and a great use of symbolism. Does it mean that anything will happen to improve the lives of those currently tangled in the judicial system at present? Probably not, but they do need major reforms to a very corrupt system of legal procedure that seems too over burdened to continue in any sort of effective manner.