Mo' FG than us

[Taro Toporific]

Peer calls for fair trial in Japan
BBC / Wednesday, 28 May, 2003, 08:35 GMT 09:35 UK]
A British man held in Japan on drugs charges has not been given a fair trial, Liberal Democrat peer and MEP Sarah Ludford says. Baroness Ludford has travelled to Japan with a lawyer from Fair Trials Abroad to highlight the case of Nicholas Baker who is due to be sentenced in a fortnight.
...During his time in Japan, Baker had been in solitary confinement for 10 months. Although Baker does not speak or read Japanese, he was asked to sign a document in Japanese - "which is nothing short of staggering for a system that claims to abide by the rule of law," Baroness Ludford said.

[American Oyaji]

I'd say he knows someone high up in British society

[Steve Bildermann]

I'd say he knows someone high up in British society

I think it will be better for him if he knows someone high up in *Japanese* society

[Andocrates]

Both camps hate a "row"

[Taro Toporific]

I'd say he knows someone high up in British society

I think it will be better for him if he knows someone high up in *Japanese* society

Turns out he didn't "know" enough...

Japan jails Briton for 14 years for drug smuggling
MSNBC / Reuters / TOKYO, June 12
A Japanese court sentenced a British man to 14 years in prison on Thursday for smuggling drugs into Japan, a court official said. ...and also handed him a five million yen ($42,480) fine...

[GuyJean]

A Japanese court sentenced a British man to 14 years in prison on Thursday for smuggling drugs into Japan, a court official said. ...and also handed him a five million yen ($42,480) fine...

See? Like I said before, you gotta either hold a Japanese girl captive for 9 years, decapitate some school kids, eat a woman after gutting her, kill an airport security guard with an omiyage, cause a nuclear melt-down, or poison thousands by recycling spoiled milk to actually get off in this country..

He knows so little about Japan.

GJ

[Steve Bildermann]

[GuyJean]