I'm sure they could get him to talk if they want to. The Japanese prisons aren't as soft as the western ones. Plus he'll be locked up with members of the Japanese Yakuza mafia. If he doesn't tell the authorities where he hid the Bitcoins the Yakuza will soon get him to talk. He'll have a nightmare if he already dumped them because nobody will believe him.
Unless the disappearance of the 600'000 BTC was an operation of the Yakuza...
Jeez btc in the league of hsbc money laundering.
Jokes aside if the japanese court ruled that the bitcoins are just like money there is high chance that people will be returned some bitcoins right?