Haiku About The "Real" Japan

(From "The Japan Times", written by Colin Jones, who teaches at Doshisha University --- big thanks to Eric Kimura for sending them)
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You want a lawyer?
But without confessing first?
"Very difficult" 
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Sunrise — ohayo!
Here's your breakfast, clean undies
The hanging's today
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Can't see your children
Judge too busy to see his
You see the problem?
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Cops went to onsen
Before checking out stalker
Oops! New mascot time
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It's not gambling
Pachinko is just for fun
Do you need a loan?
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Supreme court ruling:
"Plaintiffs claims legitimate"
They're old by now, too
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"Lifetime employment"
Is no longer viable
(bureaucrats aside)
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Mandates to teachers:
Sing imperial anthem
Teach about freedom
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Non-Japanese folk
Have constitutional rights
Except when they don't
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Presumed innocent
Suspects are detained for months
They might destroy proof
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Random card checking
Fingerprints at the airport
Yokoso Japan!
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Japanese culture
Lawsuits disfavored by "wa"
Also, they're futile
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Record questioning?!
How could cops gain suspect's trust?!
Or, uh, threaten them?
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Ministry old boy
Drove your pension off a cliff
Amakudari
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Barred from the hot springs
for invisible tattoo
It says "foreigner"
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Notice on bus stop
"On alert for terrorists"
What are they smoking?