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Often. The myth that Japan has basically no crime is pure insanity and bullshit. For example You will regularily read news about people killing their elderly parents and stabbings are also common.

Not so fun fact: Crossbows have been banned in Japan because several murders happened with them as murder weapon.
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I live here and there is no crime lol. People leave cars and bikes unlocked outside and nothing happens. I used to have a neighbor who would leave a bluetooth speaker in his bike basket outside and no one took it. I see kids as young as like 5 walking around by themselves. I live in a medium sized city you probably haven't heard of but I've been to every major city including Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. Obviously people are more guarded there than here but it's still not even close to how dangerous American cities are. the supposed "bad" part of Tokyo, Kabukicho, feels like a yuppie part of an American city. The scammers are disproportionately South Asian immigrants. I actually do not like living in Japan for several different reasons (TLDR very very shallow, bland, boring, ugly, commercial place), but the safety is one of the few things they have on the West.
 
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...but the safety is one of the few things they have on the West.
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The only legitimately unsafe place in Japan is Kawaguchi. The Kurdish gang is getting out of control.

Tamura Atsushi from London Boots released a ridiculous and misleading video on his youtube channel last month where he claimed to investigate the truth behind the Kurdish problem in Kawaguchi. It was extremely disliked and the comments were full of residents sharing their encounters with Kurds. Tamura later folded on Twitter, saying he sympathizes with the Kawaguchi residents and apologizes for not doing enough research, but I don't see how he can witness Warabistan and come out with the impression that public safety hasn't declined to Middle East levels.
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> I never thought I'd get a comment.
> Thank you for your polite reply.

> I'll write down my thoughts too.
> (It ended up getting long for me as well 🙇‍♂️)

> The biggest evil in the Kurdish issue is Japan's ambiguous system regarding refugees.

> But the Kurds are not people who have been trapped in the gaps of this ambiguous system; they are people who have taken advantage of the ambiguous system for their own convenience.
> (They aren't even refugees. It's strange that refugees can travel to an island nation like Japan using passports.)

> While the refugee acceptance system has ambiguous parts, the status called "provisional release" means "during illegal stay," so the Kurds on provisional release are solid criminals.
> This isn't ambiguous in any way.

> Since they are criminals during illegal stay, it's only natural that they can't work!
Working would be a crime.

> Listening to Mahir Jan, the Kurdish leader who appeared on Abema's program,
he talks in a tone like, "The Kurds on provisional release have become an indispensable labor force in Japan. So Japan should recognize the Kurds as refugees."

> Originally, the discussion should be that since they are illegal stayers, they should be forcibly deported!

> But it's shifting the argument to: since they've done illegal work while being illegal stayers, and the profits from that are benefiting Kawaguchi citizens, Japan would gain more by recognizing them!

> In that context, during Jun-san's on-site inspection, he didn't point out at all the clear illegal stays and illegal employment of the Kurds...
> Instead, he highlighted their way of working, their lifestyle, and their humanity that allows for dialogue, and I just can't believe that comes from Jun-san's lack of study.

> Because everyone should have known for sure about the illegal stays and illegal employment.

> With that approach, it comes across to viewers that even if Kurds are people who do illegal work during illegal stays, if they work diligently and can engage in dialogue, then Japan must accept Kurds as refugees.

> I think that somewhere in his heart, Jun-san wanted to accept the pitiful Kurds.

> I think he's a kind person.

> I consider this to be "Japan's peace disease that looks like kindness."

> Slander is not good, but the harsh words flying at Jun-san from various sides are not about his lack of study.

> It's because before showing kindness to Kurds, as Japanese people, we want him to value Japan's rules.

> I also post a lot on SNS, and I often get called an idiot anonymously for stupid things.

> I know well how difficult it is to reveal your identity and take a stance to speak out!
So, I don't want to join in anonymous slander, but I think that "kind peace disease" like Jun-san's is the worst thing for Japan right now, so I'll say that part.

> Sorry for making it so long too.
> Thank you for reading to the end.
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Reply by Tamura
> Hosokawa-san, thank you once again for your thoughtful and polite reply. Regarding the point you raised that "the root of the problem lies in the ambiguity of the system," I share the same sentiment. While conducting interviews with citizens and hearing many voices of anxiety, what I wanted to know was how foreigners "work and live, and their personal character." Not because I wanted to defend foreigners, but because I wanted to see and hear with my own eyes the real contradictions that exist there... There are people who are on provisional release, where they "are not allowed to work," yet in reality, they are working within the community. This is completely illegal employment. Despite being in that illegal state, why have they been left unaddressed for years, or even decades? That's what I wanted to know, but I deeply regret that by doing the location shoot with my shallow knowledge, I ended up creating content that misled many people.

> And this time, upon hearing Hosokawa-san's words that "kindness can become a peace disease," it hit me. I realized that I was exactly suffering from that "peace disease"... I thought that when it comes to foreigners who are using the ambiguous system in a way that's convenient for them, we need a strict approach to ensure they properly follow the rules.

> Thank you for explaining so politely to someone like me who is afflicted with this illness called peace disease. In a world where there are people who hurl abuse, insults, and defamation at those who oppose their beliefs, I am deeply grateful that we were able to have a dialogue that deepened our understanding.　　
> Jun Tamura
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News article about it

Immigration from the developing world is not yet even a tenth of what it is in the west, but Japan is uniquely unsuited to handle it. There are many grievances with legal immigrants, but Kurds in particular are a huge problem that doesn't have to exist because virtually all of them are illegal and eligible for deportation, so it makes no sense for the state to ignore their crimes and let them operate gangs in the open. They are all one big clan and traffick their relatives into the country. They claim to be refugees but regularly go back to the country they are fleeing from for business and leisure.

The failure of the state to do anything about this is so blatant that the only logical conclusion is that the LDP is intentionally fucking with citizens because they are pressured by some higher power, or they just hate us. Even the most libshit Japanese can't justify it.

The most influential supporters of illegal Kurds in Japan are LDP members. Some are even on the right wing faction of the LDP, making speeches about patriotism and national integrity, while simultaneously being on the board of the Japan-Kurd friendship committee. In Japan, support for illegals is confusingly bipartisan, so simply voting for the opposition won't help at all. There is no way for the people to protest this wildly unpopular policy because there are no mainstream parties that oppose it.


I think in 2025, there are only two political topics that get the apolitical normie masses angry enough to protest: Kurds and food prices. I might be optimistic but I think more people are starting to understand that mass immigration is an imminent existential problem, but there are no viable anti-immigration political movements, just splintered right wing opposition. I fear that Japans political system will end up like Germany where it's everyone vs the "far right" AfD.
So the state has announced that they would do something about the Kurdish problem pretty recently, after years of Kurds terrorizing their neighbors. They announced the "Zero illegal immigrant plan", which they claim will reduce the number of illegal immigrants to zero by 2030 by closing the Refugee loophole that allows for unlimited refugee applications and allocating more resources into the immigration bureau so they can process (and hopefully reject) more applications, and create legal framework for fast track deportation. There's also some shit about JESTA (electronic visa tracking system), but I don't understand how it would help.

This is probably not a direct result of public backlash and approval ratings. The government always takes years to react to an ongoing crisis. People I've talked to about this feel that it's not enough. Until Visaless travel is revoked from Turkey, the flow of new and returning Kurds will not stop. The other problem is that the plan focuses too much on "illegals who commit crimes" instead of just all illegals. It's completely missing the point. It doesn't matter if they did crimes. There should be no priority list. If they have no visa, they need to be deported immediately. Men, women, kids, doesn't matter.

Yesterday, the government deported a family of five who had been overstaying for 10 years. Two kids in middle and high school and their relatives. Mainstream news reported this like as if it was a tragedy that the child of an illegally overstaying family was denied the opportunity to attend college (taxpayer funded). It's a good start, but not enough.

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I haven't even brought up the problems legal immigrants can cause, which is enough to fill ten more autism posts. I'm sure most are good people, but it's clear that normally apolitical Japanese are suffering acute foreigner fatigue. The number of times I've heard "I don't go there anymore, too many gaijin" is higher than I can count.
 
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Crimes in Japan like these seemingly get under-reported, but the levels of these crimes makes me wonder if Japan is actually worse than China and Worst Korea when shit like this happens:

Father, two children found dead in apparent murder-suicide in Niigata home / Archive

NIIGATA
A 39-year-old man, his 2-year-old daughter, and his 1-year-old son were found collapsed in their home in Niigata City on Thursday night, police said Friday.

The three were taken to hospital, but were confirmed dead on arrival, NHK reported. Police suspect the father, Makoto Otsuka, killed the children and then himself.

According to police, Otsuka’s wife called police at around at around 10 p.m. and said that when she returned home, she found her husband and two children unconscious and not breathing.

When police arrived, they found the three in the living room on the second floor of the three-story house. All three had external injuries but the house showed no signs of anyone having broken in.

Police said autopsies will be held to determine the cause of death.

The house is in a residential area about 400 meters northwest of JR Niigata Station.

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24-year-old man arrested for filming up 8-year-old girl's skirt at bookstore / Archive

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Police in Fukusaki town, Hyogo Prefecture, have arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of taking voyeuristic images up an 8-year-old girl's skirt.

Police said the suspect, who was arrested on Friday, is accused of aiming his smartphone up the girl's skirt at a bookstore in a shopping center in Itami City between 6:35 p.m. and 7 p.m. on May 25, Kobe Shimbun reported.

The man is also accused of touching the girl’s bottom. The girl immediately called out to her father who was in the same store, but the man fled.

Police said the suspect was identified after an analysis of security camera footage which showed him wandering around the girl, lifting her skirt and crouching down.

Police said the man has admitted to the allegation and quoted him as saying, "While I was secretly filming her underwear, I felt the urge to see it for myself."

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Even with the worst shit Koreans seem to do like their own murder-suicides don't reach these levels of low, yet. And the second guy is really asking to be literally put into a blender.
 
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I hate the japanese language. It is so cringe. It is even worse when some western faggot speaks japanese. Even worse when a black speaks japanese.
 
Goodbye Ishiba. You weren't cut out for this job. Let's see which geriatric they put in next.

The tariff shit was the final nail in the coffin. Trump won't acknowledge a prime minister who can't speak english and has no negotiation skill, and the retard tariff is rapidly destroying the economy of America's only reliable ally in Asia. If the next guy isn't as good as Abe was at sucking off capricious American presidents, Japan falling out of the western sphere of influence will become an actual possibility.
 
I read last night that the new emperor is a bug fanboy with dragonflies being his special interest. He also apparently wants to do something for the ones getting pushed out by cities.

That's wholesome, yo.
 
A Nog stabbed an executive at a company he was fired from. / Archive

TOKYO - Police in Tokyo have arrested a 61-year-old Ethiopian man on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed an executive at the company where he used to work on Friday.

According to police, the incident occurred at around 5:30 p.m. in the office of an apparel company on the third floor of a building in Akasaka, NTV reported.

Police said the suspect had worked at the company until about a year ago when he was fired. The victim was his manager at the time.

Police said he stabbed the executive, a man in his 30s, in the stomach with a kitchen knife. Another employee suffered cuts to his hand and fingers when he tried to intervene.

The victim was taken to hospital and remains in a critical condition, police said.

Police said the suspect has admitted to the crime but has denied intent to kill. He was quoted as saying, “The man told me he would help me find another job, but hadn’t done anything.”

According to police, the suspect had previously visited the office several times to discuss the matter with the victim.
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Nogs gonna Nog in Weebland, I guess. And expect the Government and Western Liberals to try to spin this act hard to "HE DIDNU" in usual fashion.

And a mother stabbed 5-year old daughter and attempted to kill herself. / Archive

OSAKA - A 34-year-old woman is suspected of fatally stabbing her 5-year-old daughter and then attempting to kill herself at their home in Ikeda City, Osaka Prefecture, police said Saturday.

According to police, the two were found in the living room on the first floor of their two-story home at around 6:20 p.m. Friday by a relative who had been upstairs, NHK reported. The relative called 119.

The woman and her daughter were taken to hospital but the child died just after 8 p.m. Police said she had a deep knife wound to her stomach.

The child’s mother also had a knife wound to her abdomen which police believe was self-inflicted. A bloodied knife was found in the room.
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The daughter died, but the mother survived. And when Koreans actually succeed at murder-suicides, but this Nip lady couldn't finish the job...
 
He's a clueless retard, but Koizumi Jr is the most viable pick out of all the front runners. He has no real policy or ideology, and he's a soulless demon like the rest of them but he has his fathers good hair, he wasn't tainted by Unification church ties (as far as I know), and he can string together words in front of a camera without spilling his spaghetti. Also, he's 45 years old and has the most voter recognition. I hate this guy but factionalism is killing the party and the Japan needs a Obama type prime minister to fix this retarded trump tariff situation. Its optimistic but i could imagine DPP slowly coming back into the fold if he stays in power for long enough

Takaichi Sanae is a Abe faction hardliner who talks big about nationalism but also implicitly supports infinity immigrants and whatever her monied interests tell her to do. I feel like a "hard right*" turn for the ruling party is going to cause the moderate base to evaporate if she is allowed to lead.

This election matters on october 3 matters a lot because it determines how much power the corrupt core of the LDP has over the party and by extension, the future of the current political system.

*note: right left paradigm within party politics has almost nothing to do with power but rather how close one is to Aso Taro, the kingmaker of Japanese politics.


tl:dr japans next prime minister will either be a ambitious nepo baby with good hair or a old-money controlled golem. both have basically the same politics, but the other parties are less likely to cooperate with the golem.
 
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ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday said:
So is Japan actually just fucked? Like it's going to fall like Europe did since 2012?
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Japan is a protectorate of the United States, so its long term prospects are decided by external factors.

Western reporting on Japans demographic crisis is purposefully distorted because all western nations, and developed Asian nations have just as bad, or even worse replacement rates when immigration is not counted. Japan and Korea are just ahead of the curve by ten years.

The demographic problems that Japan faces requires drastic solutions that need power and guts to implement. It would take a great leader from outside the current political system to turn things around.

The demographic problems in Europe probably cant be solved without violence.
 
Based far right anti-immigration Takaichi Sanae just BARELY won the LDP's leadership election and she will be the first female prime minister.We are so back.
 
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