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Japan introduces juries

Updated on 17 July 2007

By Channel 4 News

Japan is planning to introduce juries for the first time.

Japan currently has one of the highest convition rates in the world at 99.9 percent.

The jury system may be a cornerstone of our judicial procedure, but for the Japanese, it is a piece of foreign exoticism.

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