Japan has a conviction rate of 99.8%. arrested and convicted is pretty much the same thing over there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...
In Japan you can be arrested while an investigation is in process, only afterwards you will be indicted. Additionally, Japan does not permit defendants to post bail prior to an indictment.
Yes Japan has a really high conviction rate, but that is because they indict only cases were a conviction is likely.
Arrests don't need to lead to the person being indicted.
It also makes the act of accusing incredibly powerful, and you have to wonder what threshold there is and whose accusations matter, because this severe punishment for dropped charges feels extremely powerful.
By comparison, you might consider https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/14/fewer-tha... :
> In fiscal year 2022, only 290 of 71,954 defendants in federal criminal cases – about 0.4% – went to trial and were acquitted
So does the US.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/06/11/only-2-of...
If they confess, it counts as a win. If they don’t, you release them but it’s not a loss (as they were not charged).