> To me this just sounds like the Japanese police has ran out of real crimes to solve This has been true for the police in almost every developed country for d

> To me this just sounds like the Japanese police has ran out of real crimes to solve This has been true for the police in almost every developed country for decades. The function of police is to hurt people (by Stafford Beer, this is also their purpose). Since there aren't nearly enough criminals for them to hurt, they have shifted to waging a constant war against their own population, fueled by a ballooning catalog of criminal offenses that is no longer even comprehensible to most people. It's the only way they can justify their continued existence in anything resembling its current form.