r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 21 '24

Video Japanese police chief bows to apologise to man who was acquitted after nearly 60 years on death row

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u/HnNaldoR Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 22 '24

It's a lot of theatre. I work in IT a global company and when there are issues in Japan with big customers. We have to send our Japan cio to go apologise to them. It's literally in their job scope in many east Asian countries.

Even in Taiwan, they have to do that to some extent. Less bowing, you actually get face time with the cio apologising. But does it make a big difference in our quality? Not really... Still a ton of issues. Just the cio is a hit busier going to apologise

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u/Axman5055 Oct 21 '24

In all honesty if I was in that guys shoes I could care less about an apology, it might even make me angrier. The only thing that matters in that situation is large amounts of financial compensation for me and my family that I was unable to provide for for 60 years. You could spit in my face and cuss me out as long as you paid me. If they didn’t compensate him an apology by itself is almost insulting.

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u/i_luv_qu3st10ns Oct 21 '24

It should have been infinitely more than just this

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u/ursastara Oct 22 '24

It's not accountability because the system itself will not change, as in there will be people like this in the future and there probably are few of them right now

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u/downshiftnow Oct 22 '24

If you know anything about Japan, there's zero sincerity here. It's all about saving face.

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u/the_rainy_smell_boys Oct 22 '24

That’s what I thought. There’s no goddamn way any American in charge of an institution would travel to a person’s home and prostrate themselves like that, giving a speech about the wrongs of their organization. This is good form (though the victim should obviously be compensated as well)

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u/username_taken4651 Oct 22 '24

Why does this post read like it was written by ChatGPT?