safe Japan

[eku]

I live in a small town in hyogo prefecture
About 1 month ago a woman was being chased by a man who was trying to attack her. She ran to the koban for help, went inside, but as usual noone was there. The man followed her inside and attacked and raped her in the koban.
it wasnt an out of the way koban, but at one of the main intersections across from Coop..
Police still dont have any leads, although I know there is a camera in the koban.
It didnt really hit the news either

[foxy49]

What?. What a pathetic story that is !!!!. A kouban without a police......running in to a convenience store would have been safer. Seriously, what's going on in Japan lately?. Foxy49

[jonnyrobinson]

Cops are prolly too busy looking for foreign visa-overstayers and stopping random gaijin on bikes. These J-cops are pathetic. Inefficient and racist. One of these I can forgive, but both together? No way!

[madmaxxam]

A woman being raped in Japan?!?! What, never!!!! Seriously though, I think Japan is much more dangerous for your average beautiful woman than it is for your average male gaijin. The fact of the matter is that the police here don't really give a ____ about solving a crime. They're too busy spending hours 'investigating' a low speed car crash in which the fault isn't contested. When I saw the amount of police hours that went into the low speed collision my gf was in I was in shock... This was around the time that a seven year old girl was kidnapped, strangled, had her teeth pulled out, and drowned, IN THE SAME DISTRICT, WHILE THE KILLER WAS STILL AT LARGE.

[jonnyrobinson]

Yeah that case with the little girl was sick:-( And did you see the guy they arrested for it? Looked a right weirdo, like one of them otaku hikikomori types who can't interact with society on any meaningful level. Creepy, dead eyes....

Still he's not been found guilty yet, so he could be innocent....still looks like a creepy, otaku ____ though!

[eku]

the guy who killed and ate several preschool girls about 20 years ago still hasnt been properly convicted ...forget his name but he was an anime otaku

[paulh]

the guy who killed and ate several preschool girls about 20 years ago still hasnt been properly convicted ...forget his name but he was an anime otaku

I think you are referring to Miyazaki Tsutomu who killed several six year old girls and left the bones of one girl outside her parents house with a note. One sick mother if you ask me.

He has been convicted and now on death row but no idea when he will be executed though

[jonnyrobinson]

Check this out about that Miyazaki... what a sick fack:

http://www.charlest.whipple.net/miyazaki.html

What's worse is the pathetic response of the cops. Their bungling and indifference let this sicko do two more murders when he should have been caught easily after the first two!

[madmaxxam]

Yeah that case with the little girl was sick:-( And did you see the guy they arrested for it? Looked a right weirdo, like one of them otaku hikikomori types who can't interact with society on any meaningful level. Creepy, dead eyes....

Still he's not been found guilty yet, so he could be innocent....still looks like a creepy, otaku ____ though!

Yeah, my grilfriends first comment when she saw that guy was something along those lines. Crazy, creepy, hentai looking guy. I believe they do have DNA evidence though (in addition to him supposedly bragging to others about the crime), so if that is true I doubt that he's innocent. Anyway, at least we know that traffic violations will be thorougly prosecuted.

[jonnyrobinson]

Yeah, I know the basis of justice is innocent until proven guilty, but more often than not, when you see the faces and particularly the eyes of people arrested for heinous crimes (like that the guy they got for the Nara case) you just 'feel' they did it. I guess its intuition. Wouldn't stand up in a court of law though... At the very least, even if the guy didn't do the crime he is arrested for, something about such a face just screams: "Do not invite this guy round for tea and crumpets"!

As my wife said when she saw that guy's face who was arrested for the Nara girl murder, "his eyes are cold, dead, and un-loving,".

[jonnyrobinson]

Actually Madmaxxam, maybe our J-partner's are more tuned into analysing Japanese faces, so they can quickly say 'he's a creep', 'she's intelligent', etc. Similarly, when I see western faces I find myself speculating a lot more on the nature of that person. But with Japanese faces, at least until recently, I find it really hard to 'read' them as it were. Maybe I'll get better at it as time goes by. It's worrying though, coz I wouldn't wanna start getting friendly with somebody who turns out to be a secret kiddie porn aficionado!

[jonnyrobinson]

Shite, I'm confusing even myself! What I mean to say is that I often instinctively 'feel' that a suspect did it when I see their faces back in my home country. Whereas here, when my wife said that about the J-guy who was arrested in the Nara case, I just thought, "well ____ honey, I see plenty of guys who look like that on the train into work!" I need to start reading Japanese faces more...

[donpaulo]

a good friend of mine is a detective in Tokai. He is transfered every 3 years. What the #$@ is that ??? Just as soon as he learns the environs he gets moved. Now he has no desk. How can he do proper police work without a desk ?
Most Koban offices I see are empty, so I am not in the least bit surprised the one this unfortunate woman chose to flee to was unoccupied. The rapist must have been one sick #$%@ to attack her in the bloody koban building!
As far as "reading" someone from the face I would suggest following this simple process. If a Japanese person does what they say they will do. Then keep them as a trusted friend. If they fail to follow through with a plan find another buddy. (unless she or he is extremely cute)

[The Janken King]

Loved the bit on the news recently about that sick ____ who keep a young girl hostage for 3 months! The police found over 1000, yup 1000 "adult" video games that feature "assualt" and "containment". According to the news "the police are looking into the games to see if they have any connection to the crime" !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[waller]

In our local video store (not even out the back behind the curtain) I came across one which , judging by its cover , detailed the thrills and spills of Japanese officers and their female Korean captives,circa WW2. I could not fecken believe it. The level of serious sexual violence in porn over here is really scary.

[jonnyrobinson]

Oh come now, like this sick stuff doesn't go on in America and Europe?!

[waller]

Oh come now, like this sick stuff doesn't go on in America and Europe?!

yeah, totally does but it just seems so mainstream here. I mean, that video was out in the general section and was a porn about the capture and rape of Korean women during the war. And some of the anime that is on during normal hours on TV.....

[kimonolover]

Man! I thot JApan was the lowest crime place on earth! Liek I've heard of them having only a few murders and rapes in an average year and most of those being done by american military personal. Like there's 6 million rapes/year in america and what, 200,000 murders? That's why the population's not growing here. My numbersmay be a little off, but I've heard it preached liek the Bible that there are no more than maybe 10-20 violent crimes/year in Japan. and someone gets shot every day in Spartanburg SC. So, if Spartanburg, SC = the only place in SC where crime is rampant, there are about 365.25 murders in SC/year. I don't know the frequency of rape in SC or anyplace really. I would bet it's sky high in LA or NicholTown or someplace liek that.

One thing we have bad around here is Meth LAbs. They're everywhere! little kids found in homes where the parents make a living off Meth is through the roof! The kkkops don't do anything but f$cking a$$ rape PPL who are speeding. I think they should at least give drivers a break! If I was a cop, I'd write tickets for PPL going too slow, going slow in left lane, pi$$ing me off, things like that. I think speed limita are oppressively slow and are there more for politicians' thugs to assault the public with fines to fund their excessive luxuries.

I say we legalize street racing!

Oh, what is street racing like in Japan? Do the police aggressively persecute racers? What happens if you get caught street racing in Japan?

[california84]

First Japan's overall crime rate declined by 7.2 percent in 2004, but white-collar crimes were up 37. I agree the Japanese media is become America like in there reporting. IN the U.S. Crime is also at 20 year low. If you watch American or Japanese new it look crime it at 20 high. Accounting Japan's National Police Agency in December 2004. The case white-collar crime was 89,879 these crimes include fraud and embezzlement from January to November, a 37 percent increase over the same period last year. Overall crimes totaled 2,365,206 cases, down 7.2 percent.
The Japan's National Police Agency a decrease in violent crimes in 2004 these crimes including murder, aggravated robbery, arson, rape and indecent assault, down 4.3 percent to 20,821 cases. But there was an 18.1 percent increase in abductions, including those of children, and a 9.8 percent increase in robberies of private residences. Also high profile crimes that contribute to a sense of public insecurity were on the rise.

Cali

[california84]

First I do not like people like Kimonolover wrong assumption that the U.S. Military is committing or Foreign are committing all crimes if the U.S. military was not in Japan the Russian, Chinese, or North Korea would be here. I know that U.S. Troop especial in Okinawa have done some tribal things in the past. In general U.S. troop and foreign in Japan are well behave.

Japan's National Police Agency reported 40,615 cases of crimes or offences involving foreigners for 2003. This was an increase of 16.9% from the previous year and topping the 40,000 line for the first time in history. But what is hidden behind these figures? Do foreigners really commit much more crimes than Japanese?
Foreign crime in Japan is increasing, but so does Japan's foreign population. In 1980, there were 782,910 foreigners registered in Japan. In 1990, it had increased to 1,075,317, then to 1,686,444 in 2000, and around 1.9 million in late 2003. That is an increase of 45% in 10 years, compared with 2.1% growth in the total population.
The 16% increase in criminal cases and 19% increase in number of people arrested from 2002 to 2003 are hardly significant, as number fluctuate a lot from year to year and had even decreased by 11% (cases) from 2000 to 2001. Over the 10 year period between 1993 and 2003, the number of cases has grown by 52%, while arrests have only increased by 38%, compared to the 45% increase in registered foreigners. Contrarily to the myth that Japanese officials want to convey, foreigners are not getting more dangerous than before.
What kind of crimes do foreigners commit?
20,007 foreign nationals were arrested in 2003. This number however does not include actual condemnations, so we do not know how many of them were culprit. Some of them were charged with more than one crime (esp. thefts and robberies), which explains why there has been twice more cases (40,615) than arrests.
Statistics are classified by type of crimes and offences in the following way:
• Crimes includes murder, rape, arson, kidnapping, robbery, thefts (car, purse, wallets...), etc.
• Offences are visa overstaying, drug use, illegal weapon possession, speeding, prostitution, etc.
The main difference is that crimes are causing damage, loss or trauma to someone, while offences are just doing something illegal without hurting anyone.
Looking at the statistics from the NPA (in Japanese), we realize that among 20,007 people arrested, 11,282 were for offences, including 9,211 for immigration-related issues like overstaying their visa.
Thefts accounted for over 50% of the overall crimes (4,555 out of 8,725). No more than 477 (0.02%) of the total arrests were for vicious crimes, and they were mostly committed by Chinese (52%) and Brazilians (22%). Of the 477 vicious crimes, there were 61 murders, 34 rapes, 13 arsons and 369 robberies.
Where are foreign criminals from?
Among the 20,007 people arrested in 2003:
• 83.3% were from Asia
• 10.9% were from South America
• 1.3% were from North America (0.8% from USA)
• 1.5% were from Europe
• 1.2% were from Russia
• 1.3% were from Africa
• 0.5% were from Oceania
Considering only the 8,725 crimes so not the offences such like visa overstaying, however, - 74,5% were from Asia - 17,7% were from South America - 2,2% were from North America (1.4% from USA) - 2% were from Europe - 1,8% were from Russia – 0.9% were from Africa – 0.8% were from Oceania
The following table gives the number of foreigners by nationality for the main countries represented in Japan. The foreign population is based on the number of residents (stats from the Japan Statistical Bureau for 2003) and visitors (stats from the JNTO for 2004) combined as shown below.
We will not take into account some of the main group of foreign residents in Japan due to a lack of information on the number of visitors. The countries affected are Peru, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Iran.

[california84]

Look at the statistics the highest rate of criminals and offenders combined by nationality is found respectively among Russians (0.871%), Chinese (0.860%), Thais (0.530%), Brazilians (0.428%) and Philippines (0.409%). Considering continents, the highest crime and offence rate is however held by the Africans (0.954%).

The Japanese crime rate is 0.340%, which is similar to the Asian average of 0.314%, but about 10 times higher than that of Western countries, with Oceania’s at 0.0044%, Europeans at 0.042% and North Americans at 0.029%. The Koreans have the lowest crime and offence rate (0.086%) of any non-Western country, which is worth mentioning as they are the single largest group of foreigners in Japan, accounting for 1/3 of all foreign residents.

Highest rate of crimes only per country If we omit the offences, as most of them are visa-related and cannot compare to Japanese rates. Offences include all violations of the law that do not cause any harm to other people, such as getting a parking ticket or consuming alcohol under the legal age. If we concentrate on real crimes, we find a completely different ranking though. Iranians, Russians or Philippines have been arrested for a much higher number of offences than crimes, for instance. We also see that Brazilians and Japanese were arrested for proportionally more crimes than offences. Here is the real crime rate:

• Chinese (0.428%)
• Brazilians (0.351%)
• Japanese (0.291%)
• Russians (0.271%)
• Philippines (0.101%)
• Thais (0,051%)
• Koreans (0.024%)
• Britons (0.021%)
• Americans (0.016%)

These numbers are extremely interesting because it shows that combined crimes and offences can be very misleading. Thai and Vietnamese (see NPA stats) have a similar combined number (699 and 718) but 90% of Thai arrested are offenders, while about 80% of Vietnamese arrested are criminals. As a result, the real crime rate of Vietnamese is 11 times higher than that of Thais.

We also see that Japanese themselves are more likely to commit real crimes than anybody except the Chinese and the Brazilians (most of which are Nikkei that is Brazilians of Japanese descent). Westerners and Koreans are by far the most peaceful residents in Japan, with a fantastically low crime rate, about 12 to 18 times lower than that of the Japanese.
What these numbers teach us is not to assimilate neighboring countries haphazardly. In Japan, the Chinese commit 18x more crimes than the Koreans, and the Russians have 10 x higher crime rates than the other Europeans. At the extremes, a Chinese is statistically 26.75 times more likely to commit a crime than an American (USA).

Comparing continents, it is interesting to note the very high crime rate of South Americans (0.418%), actually higher than that of Africans (0.289%) once the offences removed. South Americans in Japan are almost 20 xs more likely to commit crimes than North Americans. Could this be due to the fact that 93% of South Americans in Japan are residents (as opposed to visitors), while 93% of North Americans are (short-term) visitors? This wouldn't work for Africa, though, as only 1/3 of the Africans in Japan are residents.
How to interpret these statistics?

I suspect that less Japanese have been arrested compared to the real number of crimes or offences, because, foreigners (especially those who do not look Japanese) have a higher chance of being suspected and arrested, even if they aren't condemned because they were not the real culprits. In addition, many problems are never reported to the police by the Japanese, especially when they can settle the issue between them. So again, once foreigners are involved, the chances are much higher that the police are involved and that it appears in the statistics, which explains why Japanese have such a disproportionally low rate of offences (0.049%) compared to crime (0.291%). The point is that when one of the sides does not speak Japanese (or not well enough), the police must be called. That certainly increases considerably the number of "official" foreign crimes and offences.

[kurogane]

I once "recycled" an abandoned bicycle from outside the train station once, without re-registering it.

I feel so ashamed.
As a penance, I am going to start wearing kimono, and moreover, learn all the terms for them in alarming detail. That way I will look like such a knobbish looser that everyone will surely understand I am suffering for my past sins.

[california84]

People like you give us foreigner a bad name. I am so ashamed of being a foreign. I demand justice and reparations. It is time to atone for you crime. I believe you should serve 10 years in prison. (You most likely stolid the bike from poor little Tomoko who save for years to buy the bike and in a matter of second you stolid the bike and her dream).This way you are made an example for other foreign scum like you. At the end of the ten years you will be deported at once to your country of origin. When you return to you country you will order to pay for yours stay in prison too. Finally, it time that foreign scum are taken off street. When will Japan finally wise up and deport all foreigners. As you know Foreign are committing all the crimes in Japan, raping all the women, steel all the money, and corrupting all the children. If all foreigners left Japan it would be a perfect country with no crime or any problems. It time Koizumi wise up and take care of this cancer that is kill Japan and it people.

LOL LOL, LOL

[kurogane]

People like you give us foreigner a bad name. I am so ashamed of being a foreign. I demand justice and reparations. It is time to atone for you crime. I believe you should serve 10 years in prison. (You most likely stolid the bike from poor little Tomoko who save for years to buy the bike and in a matter of second you stolid the bike and her dream).This way you are made an example for other foreign scum like you. At the end of the ten years you will be deported at once to your country of origin. When you return to you country you will order to pay for yours stay in prison too. Finally, it time that foreign scum are taken off street. When will Japan finally wise up and deport all foreigners. As you know Foreign are committing all the crimes in Japan, raping all the women, steel all the money, and corrupting all the children. If all foreigners left Japan it would be a perfect country with no crime or any problems. It time Koizumi wise up and take care of this cancer that is kill Japan and it people.

Now that you mention it, it was a very stolid bike.
Thank you Tomoko, I rub Yuuuu

[User Name Deleted]

Kleptomaniac Kuro-chan eh?
I've never felt that Japan is as safe as it is made out to be. So much crime goes unreported due to public mistrust of police (not an unusual phenomenon worldwide).
I do wonder too how willing the ___ (oops that should be Japanese) police are to investigate crimes committed against foreigners, considering the anecdotes I've heard.

[oceglok]

Am I the exception?

I live here for two years now and have met the cops on several occasions (mostly related to my business). All of these encounters were positive experiences.

Just one example: Walked my dog at 2am in one of those little parks in Nagoya. The cops pulled over, came to me and warned me to be careful, as there would be a street gang haunting this place at times. No showing any gaijin card, no fuss, just a friendly chat and off they went. A few weeks later, when i "met" this gang on another night walk (a somewhat less positive experience), this was not the usual group of young people, nicely dressed by mum, smoking some ???? and listening to oh so scary J-pop from a ghetto blaster. This was the real thing.

So, from what I have seen so far, I have got the impression, that the cops overhere know, what is going on, keep an eye on things, that are cooking and mostly take the right decisions.

But again, I might just be the exception to the rule.
oceglok

[kurogane]

Kleptomaniac Kuro-chan eh?.

If that weren't such a good alliteration, I would resent it.


I've never felt that Japan is as safe as it is made out to be. So much crime goes unreported due to public mistrust of police (not an unusual phenomenon worldwide). .

Yup. One thing that bugs me is when two Japanese will discuss the recent crime problems, then turn to me (being white as Wonder Bread), and in that casually snotty tone of nationalistic superiority, mention that I must be so happy to live in Japan, which is much much safer than Gaikoku. Grrrr, I hate nationalism


I do wonder too how willing the ___ (oops that should be Japanese) police

Hee Hee. That was so cheep.


I do wonder too how willing the ___ (oops that should be Japanese) police are to investigate crimes committed against foreigners, considering the anecdotes I've heard.

Umm, seriously though, I have had my stolen bicycles returned several times by said police. Reverse Karmic Guilt Trip?? Poor little Tomoko.
In crimes involving crimes against foregners, esp. in incidences involving alcohol, the rule seems to be to blame the victim. Gotta hate that. A lot of that might be anecdotal, though.

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[kurogane]

Am I the exception?

I live here for two years now and have met the cops on several occasions (mostly related to my business). All of these encounters were positive experiences.

Just one example: Walked my dog at 2am in one of those little parks in Nagoya. The cops pulled over, came to me and warned me to be careful, as there would be a street gang haunting this place at times. No showing any gaijin card, no fuss, just a friendly chat and off they went. A few weeks later, when i "met" this gang on another night walk (a somewhat less positive experience), this was not the usual group of young people, nicely dressed by mum, smoking some ???? and listening to oh so scary J-pop from a ghetto blaster. This was the real thing.

So, from what I have seen so far, I have got the impression, that the cops overhere know, what is going on, keep an eye on things, that are cooking and mostly take the right decisions.

But again, I might just be the exception to the rule.
oceglok

Nice to hear a nice story. Do be careful of those punks, though.
Are you a wimmins, or a mins? The former, of course, might be teased, but the latter can often be at at risk of a serious beating. It happens in Kyoto on the west bank of the river in summer sometimes.
Anyways, take care walking doggy.

[oceglok]

Thanks Kurogane

Doggy and I are both male and I am glad to be lucky enough to have come out of that one unharmed - thanks to my silly dog .-)

The funny thing about this is, when I talk about Japan as a "no crime zone" (not in absolute figures, but in relation to many places on earth, that I have been to and where I would not dream of going for a walk in any city park at 2am), most japanese, that I know, would strongly oppose and point out, what a dangerous place Japan has become in recent years. I guess, they think, that I am being snotty thinking, that they are not capable of meeting international "standards" of any kind... In fact, my sister in law would never allow her children to be outside alone after dusk, not even for the 5mins bike ride between our home and hers. Of course, doggy and I are always glad to give them some company.

So safety might just be a feeling, unrelated to the real crime rate, depending on where we come from, our surroundings and our general level of paranoia.

oceglok

[foxy49]

One pathetic thing about Japan is that " rape" is still not considered a serious crime.........many men in Japan still think that women have レイプ願望 ( desire to be raped?). I remember hearing about a politician making a dumb statement that "a healthy man should have enough physical strength to rape a woman" after series of rape incidents there. How sad is that?. Hopeless............foxy49

[kurogane]

One pathetic thing about Japan is that " rape" is still not considered a serious crime.........many men in Japan still think that women have レイプ願望 ( desire to be raped?). I remember hearing about a politician making a dumb statement that "a healthy man should have enough physical strength to rape a woman" after series of rape incidents there. How sad is that?. Hopeless............foxy49

"What were you wearing at the time?"
The most offensive phrase a Japanese policeman could use, but, unfortunately, frequently does.
Every one but one of my bestest GFs of the Native variety enjoyed their first sexual experience without consent.
And Japanese men wonder why they like Us.
Apparently, so they say, its 'cause we're big and give Free English Lessons. I have a sneaky feeling its cause we care, we rub and tickle, and well, okay, squeeze quite a bit, but they really were, like, HUGE, and because we want them to feel as blissfully lost outside of ourselves as we do when we go SCHPLURGE.
My Japanese male friends call me a suck. I like them, but they worry me.

[kimonolover]

"0.5% were from Oceania" That means Oceania is real! Oceania is the place described in 1984. IT was a fictional country, but it must be real.

I think rape should be a capitol crime and the cumrags who comit it should be publicly executed or at least those guilty of it should have their nads chopped off with a crude, unsanitary tool and hung from the walls the local police station with the name of the offender on a plaque next to the festering filth.

Or...
The secure the safety of Japanese PPL in Japan, anyone and everyone should be permitted to carry any nonconcealed weapon they chose to. Those hairpins that double as weapons are considered by my imperial code to be nonconcealed weapons because you can see them. Also, those knives wrapped in pretty, white silk that brides wear should be real knives (hard to find these days). Then she can carry that dagger in her obi everywhere and if a GI (or anyone for that matter) gives her any toruble, he will get more than he bargained for. anyone who can make good use of a staff, sword, or whatever, should be armed with it. I like guns and am not against them, but swords and staffs are cooler. They are like the lightsabers. Jedi use lightsabers cheifly and will use a blaster if they need to, but consider them to be clumsy and borderline savage.

I don't know what yoo think, but I think there would be less rape and other crime if every one had the knowledge and ecquipment to defend themselves. The badguys are there to do violence and destruction anyway, tHey don't respect the law, so why should any govt. say you can't be armed?! Only law-respecting people will follow that. Criminals will just brake more laws, they don't care.

I used to work near the ghetto. A place where the cops refuse to go. Freaky PPL would occasionally come by. I have on occasion been cornered by them. I bought a dagger for my own protection and wore it at work (I didd outdoor maintenance). So, That's that. I felt alot better knowing that I was armed when freaks came around. I never produced my weapon, but knew I could in 1.5 seconds if I needed to.

[JayJay]

Oceania isn't a country anymore than Asia or Europe is. It the region including Australia, New Zealand and most of the South Pacfic Islands. Could be a country one day, like the EU or something, that would be intresting. Maybe it could be a world superpower like in 1984. John Howard will be Big Brother and Helen Clark our Supreme Mother.

"Run for the hills everyone, armies of kangeroos are taking over!"

[User Name Deleted]

Safe Japan is sincerely a myth, I must say.
I have the scars to prove it, after being jumped by a large group of hoods after a night's heavy drinking. I didn't take it to the police however, for one, they are racist and incompetent, and secondly I hospitalized the main perpetrator, and two of his friends. Still, it's no fun having stray bicycles directed at oneself. Cost me 16,000 yen to get my forehead stitched up as well.
Luckily, I remembered what I had been taught when I was studying in Nizhny, otherwise I might not be here today.

[california84]

FYI. The reason the Japanese women carried knifes and weapons in early time of Japan were not to defend herself. The weapons were carried if the woman was raped to kill herself. Under Japanese society it was the women who was at fault for being raped NOT the man. That was hundreds of years ago. Sad how things have not change much in Japan for women. Remember that women only received the right to vote in 1945.

[JayJay]

Ive heard (I dont know for sure) that in Japan, robbing a bank carries a heavier penality than rape. Can anyone confirm or deny this? If so, it certianly shows the cultures priorities. Like when that Uni soccer team gang raped that girl and got off with no jail because they "showed remorse". Then some idiot politician (not sure of the name) said something like "gang rape is a very healthy thing, it shows that our youth are still vigorus"! Outrageous!

It seems to me however that they change their laws to look more Western but the underlying culture remains the same. My girlfriend now works full time as a worker for a big company and recently one of her friends there was forced to quit because she was getting married. I mean, she wasn't fired or anything, but there was some kind of subtle pressure from mangament that she had too. Now offically thats supposed to be illegal, isn't it?

Tatemae-Honne. Gotta love it.

[kimonolover]

Women should carry knives to protect themselves. PPL should wear kimonos and drive cars that don't have airbags. I JUST watched a woman get knocket out cold coz the airbag went off in her face and she was spralled out over the seat of the minivan she was driving. She probably would have been ok if she hadn't had an airbag. Honestly, I wish I had a car with airbags, so I could sell the airbag systems on eBay and make money to buy an A/C system, my own insurance policy, room in a duplex with a friend, and don't forget some kimonos. Yeah, a dual airbag system is that valuable.

If JApan's youth is so vigerous, I wish they'd give the CCP a run for its money. I'll say mor on the CCP in another thread.

MAin point = this...

Here's how it went down. The things that should haved been changed, stayed the same and the things that should not have been allowed to change have been changed. It is the end of the world. Be sad, Pray hard, brace yourselves for impact.

We need morals! Here in america, in Japan, wherever! We need a moral lighthouse to guide society through the troubled sea of our time.

[kimonolover]

Tell me I didn't! I mean like, noone has posted all day except for me and I've been all over this place!

[kimonolover]

Ok, here's a simple answer for the rape thing. If you're found guilty of rape, you get your nads chopped off with a crude, unsanitary pair of loping sheers (liek you trim hedges with). The cut will be irregular and take a long time to heal and this act of punishment will be publicly administered. this will send a strong message to all who think women are nothing but sexual property! Also, ther will be officially forbidden from wearing anyhitng even remotely traditional. Also, a marking will be branded on the offender's forehead so all who see him know he is a rapist. After this, he is entered into a 4-year "reeducation" camp like the ones in China where he will be made fit to re-enter society.

But, with no nads, the offender can't rape anyone anymore and there's lots of shame and thousands of PPL saw the guy get castrated and it was on TV too. So, even if he was let go, he shouldn't be able to cause any problems.

[kimonolover]

If sexual fornicators, rapists, bbank robbvers, and whatever and forbidden to wear any form of traditional clothing and they are branded on the right forearm and forehead, it will provide more incentive for law-obeying citizens to wear traditional clothing. That's part of the point as well as to create a visual seperation from the offenders and the rest of Japanese society.

Also, we kick Babylon's military out and let them ravage and colonize someone else.

Cool? Cool.