Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations

Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations by thaumasiotes on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @05:09AM (#11578812)

> The author lives in a dream world where Japan has always been a country with low criminality, obedient citizen etc. But that is only the product of the after-war and the massive US investments to make Japan the first barrier against Asian communism.

The author is correct about this. Check out criminality in communist China and Vietnam. Check out criminality in American Japanese who left Japan prior to WWII.

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Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations by brandelune on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:35AM (#11580755)

Is correct about what ? You equate American Japanese to Japanese in Japan ? You never hear about the Yakuza, the bosozoku ? The revolts at the beginning of the 20th century ? The joke here is that they have such a low criminality because the cops don't have any incentive to arrest people. Indeed, the economics of policing in Japan put quite a burden on police departments who'd rather ask people to not do the same stupid thing again than arrest them for petty thing like is done in the US.

Oh, and comparing criminality rates in the US to any other country in the world is pretty stupid too.

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