ABSTRACT
FROM the preceding chapter the reader will have formed an idea of the extraordinary judicial power in the hands of the police. It was also noted that in exercising this power “preliminary exanimations,” conducted before the prisoner is tried at all, and “summary judgment,” rendered without due process of law, sprang up as by-products of the system. Secret tortures are applied during “preliminary examinations” to compel the prisoner to make statements that Japanese police call “confessions,” on the strength of which the prisoner is convicted in open court But this phase of the Japanese administration will be dealt with later in the book. In this chapter attention is called to the infliction of corporal punishment in the form of flogging after conviction.
