Japan does not have anything even close to what would be considered a high-crime US neighborhood, and the little crime there is fairly even scattered around the

Japan does not have anything even close to what would be considered a high-crime US neighborhood, and the little crime there is fairly even scattered around the country: https://www.japanimal.org/culture-crime-map.php https://www.japanimal.org/culture-crime-map.php Unsurprisingly bigger cities have (slightly) higher crime rates, with each of greater Tokyo, Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto, Nagoya and Fukuoka clearly visible.