Japan and the Japanese illustrated . sion of common (iffences is marked from beginning toend by ferocity. The police fall upon suspected persons like a vulture on its prey. All investigations are accompanied by the Itamboo; the act of accusation isunrolled before the eyes of the prisoner, and if he does not reply according to of the prosecutor, blows rain upuu his shoulders. Woe to him if he issuspected of lying, or of entrenching himself within a system of denial; he is thenforced to kneel upon a framework of hard wood, and in that position great slabs ofstone are placed upon his
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . sion of common (iffences is marked from beginning toend by ferocity. The police fall upon suspected persons like a vulture on its prey. All investigations are accompanied by the Itamboo; the act of accusation isunrolled before the eyes of the prisoner, and if he does not reply according to of the prosecutor, blows rain upuu his shoulders. Woe to him if he issuspected of lying, or of entrenching himself within a system of denial; he is thenforced to kneel upon a framework of hard wood, and in that position great slabs ofstone are placed upon his bended legs, until they are reddened with his blood, andthe pain extracts from liim an acknowledgment, oitlicr real or fictitious, of the guiltof wliicli he is accused. JUSTICE IN JAPAN. 209 In the eyes of a Japanese judge every accused man is guilty. Tlic !thirst for victims, which are supplied by the agents of tlie ])oliee. In the dejiAtthere arc always twenty or thirty prisoners in each hall. They wear the same dress,. composed of only one garment, a coarse kirimon of blue cotton. As they arc notpcrmitteil either to comb their hair or to shave, in the course of a few ^ the beardand hair suffice to place them in the category of the impure, and inspire tiie beholderwith contempt and disgust. Tiiey sleep upon bare [ilanks on the pavement.
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