What?
No crime in Japan?
Okay....welcome to the ignore list. You are simply not to be believed.
THere was no crime reported when I was there. But for your edification, check this out and then go back to YOUR fantasy world, pal.
The Japan lesson: Can America learn from the country that has almost zero gun deaths?
The Japan lesson: Can America learn from the country that has almost zero gun deaths?
On Friday, 27 Americans, including 18 children, joined the casualties making up the highest gun-related death rate in the developed world. Those who died Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School are, statistically speaking, a drop in the bucket. So was the .223-caliber rifle that killed them. The United States of America has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world, followed by Yemen, where it is about half.
In July, after a horrific shooting at a Colorado movie theater, as journalists and others began asking whether AmericaÂ’s unique and extraordinary gun laws had anything to do with its unique and extraordinary rate of gun-related deaths, I looked into JapanÂ’s gun laws in an article for TheAtlantic.com.
The contrast between the United States and Japan could not be starker. If the United States has the loosest gun laws in the developed world, then Japan has the strictest. Most guns are illegal, with onerous restrictions on the few that are legal. Police also have far broader search-and-seizure powers. But the country also has a remarkably low rate of firearm deaths.
In 2008, when the United States experienced over 12,000 gun-related homicides, Japan had only 11, or fewer than half as many killed Friday in Newtown, Conn. That same year in the United States, 587 were killed just by accidental gun discharges.
In 2006 in Japan, a nation of 128 million people, only two were killed by guns.