The government is determined to promote measures to make the country the safest in the world. But heinous crimes aimed at children and women and frauds targeting elderly people are still rampant. Furt

Personally, I am concerned that there are costs to safety. Keeping a ship safe means never taking it out of port. Making a perfectly safe F1 car means building a tank that cannot compete. Safety and security means keeping an infant in cotton wool and rescuing it from failure all the while it is developing. The outcome can be counterproductive. Of course, some minimal level of safety is probably required but "safest in the world" does not imply that.

rampant?

Not like in America.

Based solely on the news reports here (and granted, that view is guided by JT's editorial policies for what is printed and what is not), the biggest personal hazard in Japan exists from your family members: filicide, matricide, fratricide... that's where the majority of violent crimes in Japan happen.

Based solely on the news reports here (and granted, that view is guided by JT's editorial policies for what is printed and what is not), the biggest personal hazard in Japan exists from your family members: filicide, matricide, fratricide... that's where the majority of violent crimes in Japan happen.

The media prints news that it selects from the news it has available to it, based on the stories they think will get the most readership. Not every crime is available, and the ones that are selected are filtered through the editing of said media. Trying to extrapolate actual crime rates from the types/numbers of stories one reads in the news is extremely inaccurate. That's why real numbers need to be looked at, not just the feeling one gets from reading the news.