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Is there reason to believe they are both significantly misreported in Japan, compared to the US and EU? Genuine question as I've never seen otherwise but would

• Chris2048 11y ago
  This is certainly reason to doubt it; or at least specify that this is a self reported statistic when singing Japan's praises.
  • blowski 11y ago
    Well it's self-reported in the US and EU as well. Unless you can establish reasonable grounds to believe the statistics are significantly wrong, refusing to believe them just sounds nihilistic.
    • Chris2048 11y ago
      nihilistic? As in "rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless"? In any case, what's to believe? We're comparing stats here, so we have to consider that maybe this isn't a legitimate exercise in the first place. Like comparing UK sexual-assault statistic in order to derive a ranking. Without a basis for error, our conclusions may be poor.
• mantas 11y ago
  There may be slight amount of misreporting. But that exists more or less everywhere, thus it evens out IMO. In my experience, both low crime rate and long life expectancy seems more or less true. Source: lived in Japan
• Retric 11y ago
  There was apparently significant fraud related to the pension / social security system where people where not reporting people dead for years.