Evidence Fabricating Police

If workers could create their own job by themselves, it should be the best prescription for joblessness. Japanese police could make such an impossible thing possible. Fabrication can make boring life of policeman exciting and maintain the raison d’être of low enforcement office. For that purpose, the Japanese police system, once told as the world’s most brilliant, totally destructed a man’s life.

Shizuoka District Court on Thursday found a murder case, in which a former pro-boxer had been sentenced to death, needed to be reviewed immediately, because of possible fabrication of evidences of the murder by police. Hakamada was freed from a jail in Tokyo few hours after the decision, surrounded by his supporters with chanting and tears. The prosecutors have not decided whether they will appeal to higher courts.

In 1966, four dead bodies with a number of stabs were found in burnt-down house of executive director of a miso-paste factory in Shimizu city, Shizuoka. The local police determined the case to be murderous robbery and arrested a factory worker, Hakamada, who was in need of money for renting a house. Shizuoka District Court sentenced death penalty and the higher courts dismissed his appeals. Hakamada has been detained in prison for over forty-five years.

The decision of reviewing the case actually meant that the court admitted its misunderstandings. The biggest point was five clothes being regarded as hard evidences. With advanced technology on deoxyribonucleic acid analysis, the stain of blood on a shirt, main evidence of Hakamada’s involvement, did not match Hakamada’s blood. Although the police asserted that those clothes were found in brewing tank of miso-paste after a year and two months later, the way of changing color was different from a result of experiment, the fact which indicated fabrication of evidences.

It is a story only two decades later from the World War II, in which Japanese government totally lost its credibility. To regain governmental power, police needed to accumulate facts of resolving brutal crimes. Because of low technology of crime investigation, police needed to depend on possible motivation and confession. The courts were dependent on police with the same reason. But the biggest problem was lack of a sense of human rights.

Firm belief that put more priority on governance than on human rights still exists among bureaucrats. Even how sufferers are in hardships after the great earthquake and nuclear accident, Tokyo government does care maintenance of governmental power much more. This is the main reason why Japanese democracy is still primitive.