From: | Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU> |
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Subject: | Re: Japan for the NAGTTW |
Date: | Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:07:31 +1000 |
> and the crime rate is astonishingly low. However, any violent crimes that
> do occur (outside of the Yakuza) are supressed by the government. Most of
> the violent crime in Japan IS committed by the Yak and when it stays inter
> Yak nobody really cares. The murder rate in the entire country of Japan is
> purported to be somewhere in the 50s or so a year, but you only learn of
> around 2 or 3 murders. But even if the murder rate is say 50, they are
> doing something right. It really is amazingly low no matter which rate is
> correct.
>
Wheras the suicide rate, on the other hand......
For a nation with such a strong ancestral warrior code, they've been
changed immensely as a result of WWII
Bleach