A former inmate of Tokyo's Fuchu Prison has been awarded 600,000 yen in damages for suffering 18 hours in leather handcuffs, a court has ruled.
The man from the United States, whose name is being withheld, sued the Japanese government demanding 10 million yen in damages for what he claimed was a gang attack on him by warders of the prison
Okay, let me get this straight. A Japanese doesn't offer an apology to a photograph for religious reasons, and gets hit with $50,000 in penalties, but the government's employees use unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment:
and the gaijin gets a measly $6,000? In the words of Max Cady from Cape Fear: "Now let's just break that down... why, that comes out to $10 a day... counselor, that's not even minimum wage"Article 36 [Torture]
The infliction of torture by any public officer and cruel punishments are absolutely forbidden