The people you describe are a ridiculously tiny minority.. It hardly reflects on their society as a whole. What you bring up, I think, is just a common trope

The people you describe are a ridiculously tiny minority.. It hardly reflects on their society as a whole. What you bring up, I think, is just a common trope about Japan. People have misleading ideas like this about countries they haven't experienced much of. For example, I've met a few people who think every inch of the US is a lawless bullet storm.