True Crime Japan: Thieves, Rascals, Killers, and Dope Heads: True Stories from a Japanese Courtroom - Couverture souple

Murphy, Paul

 
9784805313428: True Crime Japan: Thieves, Rascals, Killers, and Dope Heads: True Stories from a Japanese Courtroom
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ISBN 10 : 4805313420 ISBN 13 : 9784805313428
Editeur : Tuttle Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

A middle-aged carpenter beats his 91-year old mother to death and goes to work the following day, leaving the body for his wife to find. An 82-year old woman is jailed for 10 months for stealing fried chicken. Like nearly all defendants in Japan, they both plead guilty.
What happens between plea and sentencing is the subject of True Crime Japan. In this fascinating crime book journalist and longtime Japan resident Paul Murphy provides a glimpse of Japanese society through a year's worth of criminal court cases in Matsumoto, a city 140 miles to the west of Tokyo. The defendants in these cases range from ruthless mobsters to average citizens, often committing similar crimes in rather different ways, and for different reasons. Based on court hearings and interviews with the defendants, their families, neighbors and lawyers Murphy explores not only the motives of offenders, but the culture of crime and punishment in Japan.
The resulting true crime book provides a lens through which to view this honor-shame based, conformist culture, and shows how, in its role within that culture, the court system reveals Japan to be, surprisingly to some, a land of true individuals."

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À propos de l?auteur

Paul Murphy is an award-winning journalist. His articles and reports about Japan have appeared in "The Japan Times, International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Daily News, Irish Times" and "RTE's Prime Time" television program, among others. He is currently a reporter for the "RTE" Investigations Unit in Dublin.

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Éditeur
Tuttle Publishing
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
4805313420
ISBN 13 
9784805313428
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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