Japan Needs a Real Right to Silence

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.