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Originally Posted by tsurara  I've been stalked twice, groped a handful of times and sexually assaulted once. Japan is not a safe country. It is a relatively safe country.
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"Relatively" I will grant you. While Japan matched other major countries in crime it was on the low end of average. Still not the crime free zone people try and claim. Since I myself have never been "stalked twice, groped a handful of times and sexually assaulted once" I really don't have a point of reference to understand your POV. I did have my apartment broken into once and... nope, that's it. If there was a known slasher in my city I know I would be a lot less calm then you seem to be.
[Edit: sorry. I was tired yesterday and somehow missed this sentence in your post.
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Originally Posted by tsurara murder-suicide rates are not currently recorded by any census/statistics bureaus so its difficult to find anything more on the subject than hearsay. A search yeilds no papers or studies done on murder-suicide in Japan... only a handful of articles detailing cases of murder-suicide. |
You are absolutely correct on that. The studies I read had to estimate and take into account that murder/suicides in Japan are actually recorded as group/family suicide. There is no way to know the actual number so the best you can do is take into account suicide rates for all the countries as well as Japans and even then all you get is an estimate. It took me days to find what little I did (on that specific subject) so I am not surprised you found nada.
However the stats on crime in general there were still in the low average for a developed nation, which was actually my point and I am afraid it has gotten lost in the middle of this. /Edit]
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Originally Posted by Hassun And not acknowledging a problem only leads to the problem getting worse. |
All to true. I wish more people were willing to call a spade a spade without worrying about offending everyone. The world would be a lot safer.