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Japan is a really weird country, on one hand it's the safest country, on the other it has old laws / weird mentality about some modern concepts for society, ex:

by Thaxll 8y ago

Japan is a really weird country, on one hand it's the safest country, on the other it has old laws / weird mentality about some modern concepts for society, ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_child_abduction_in_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_child_abduction_...

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y ago
> Japan is a really weird country, on one hand it's the safest country How do you know it is safe if you can easily be wrongly convicted, but no statistic about the country shows that?
- teachrdan 8y ago
  I believe they are referring to Japan's low rate of violent crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Japan#Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Japan#Statistics
  - zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y ago
    Which is exactly the error I have been pointing out? Or are you saying that people being forced into prison for no fault of their own is being counted as violent crime in that statistic?
- hamilyon2 8y ago
  Criminals think seven, no, seventy times before doing anything that could possibly upset japan national on Japanese soil. This is how it is that safe.
  - stcredzero 8y ago
    Criminals think seven, no, seventy times before doing anything that could possibly upset japan national on Japanese soil. This is how it is that safe. Or, the criminals are organized and have connections and unspoken agreements with the authorities, existing in a kind of truce. (EDIT: In essence, the seven to seventy times thinking over has been enshrined and institutionalized.)
  - zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y ago
    Congrats on completely missing the point.
- pwim 8y ago
  With Japan's incarceration rate of 41 per 100,000 people, one of the lowest in the world, your chance of being falsely convicted is exceedingly low (as only a very small percentage of the population is convicted of crimes, wrongly or otherwise).
fmajid 8y ago
Google "Minamata" to shake off those rosy-tinted glasses you are wearing.

by Thaxll 8y ago

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y ago

> Japan is a really weird country, on one hand it's the safest country How do you know it is safe if you can easily be wrongly convicted, but no statistic about the country shows that?

teachrdan 8y ago
I believe they are referring to Japan's low rate of violent crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Japan#Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Japan#Statistics
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y ago
  Which is exactly the error I have been pointing out? Or are you saying that people being forced into prison for no fault of their own is being counted as violent crime in that statistic?
hamilyon2 8y ago
Criminals think seven, no, seventy times before doing anything that could possibly upset japan national on Japanese soil. This is how it is that safe.
- stcredzero 8y ago
  Criminals think seven, no, seventy times before doing anything that could possibly upset japan national on Japanese soil. This is how it is that safe. Or, the criminals are organized and have connections and unspoken agreements with the authorities, existing in a kind of truce. (EDIT: In essence, the seven to seventy times thinking over has been enshrined and institutionalized.)
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y ago
  Congrats on completely missing the point.
pwim 8y ago
With Japan's incarceration rate of 41 per 100,000 people, one of the lowest in the world, your chance of being falsely convicted is exceedingly low (as only a very small percentage of the population is convicted of crimes, wrongly or otherwise).

fmajid 8y ago

Google "Minamata" to shake off those rosy-tinted glasses you are wearing.