Sadly, those kinds of misreportings are common in other countries and places too. My own home of New York City has been hit by a number of underreporting scanda

Sadly, those kinds of misreportings are common in other countries and places too. My own home of New York City has been hit by a number of underreporting scandals. I have no reason to believe they are less common elsewhere than Japan. So I still think national crime statistics provide the best basis for comparison.