Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations
by nihonde on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @08:18AM
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This whole line of argument makes no sense. Why wouldn't every country overreport old people or underreport deaths, as the case may be? Just about every country has an incentive for pension fraud.
So...why Japan?
Incidentally, old people are in visibly high numbers here in Japan. I joke sometimes that it's like living in a zombie movie——it's not uncommon to be completely surrounded by only elderly people shuffling to and fro.
Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations
by Chris2048 on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @09:56AM
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What line of argument? It feels like you're referring to an argument I haven't made - The one where I say stats must have their potential for error considered, but only wrt Japan.
Also, some of the links posted here show particular reasons to consider these Japanese stats suspect:
> Just about every country has an incentive for pension fraud.
Not all countries investigate pension fraud equally.
In any case, you want me to provide evidence? of what? Why? It's not my job.
My statements are perfectly true. If we take reported stats at face value, the UK has one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world. In reality, they have the highest reported rate of sexual assault.
The most problematic of the stats you mention is the crime rate - Japan also has a fairly high "suicide" rate:
"The NPA has admitted that in Japan only 10 percent of suspicious deaths result in an autopsy. However, when a death initially appears to be due to suicide, only 5 percent are autopsied. The lack of a comprehensive use of autopsies was only brought to the public’s attention after several cases of “missed murders” came to light. The 45 known cases may just be “the edge of the graveyard” as some cops have put it."
-- http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/03/national/media-n...