Japan has the highest teen suicide rate in the world.
And their kids are going psycho according to the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/asia-p...377781.stm

In 1994 they had closed a national park because it had become so popular for
people to kill themselves in it.

I was posting how the crime statistics for Japan
are created by under reporting then I started
digging up info to this effect.
here have a gander at this letter to the editor
http://www.biz2web.com/grant/times2.htm

They are just as violent and dangerous as any nation.
ssssh but don't tell, you might hurt someone's pride and they will
knife themselves ritualisticly.

Violence against women hasn't been considered a crime there until recently.
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/d...xt/archive

You realise the implications of this? For the entire 20th century the Japanese
system has been brutal to women without any means of protecting these women.
Rapes and beatings go unreported because people know nothing will be done.

sssh it didn't happen. Now get on with your lives beaten and raped girls, get over it.

Not to be Japan bashing. Just don't believe the hype.


Oh on a note of interest in this topic as an American I've been
Mugged 7 times.
Assaulted on my own property twice.
Held up at gunpoint once.
Broken into 4 times.
Hunted by a mob at least three times.
Shot at by a drunk once.
Arrested twice for victimless crimes. (Cannabis seeds and walking in the woods..Blair Police Project)


For all the incidents of crime, the police were involved in 20% of cases.
of those cases Absolutely nothing was resolved,
no one was arrested.
I've never seen a police line up, or that neat book full of bad guys they show you on tv.

FBI, FTC, IRS, Local, State police, and prosecutors have never gone farther than saying "thank you for your information, if we ever get off our fat asses, we might call you."

Law enforcement in the United States is a joke.
No wonder its in the state that is:
http://members.cruzio.com/~spitzer/usNumberOne.





Hmm while digging around i found an interesting article about censorship...please read.
The data about violent movies and aerobics work out tapes is good for a laugh.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-jf-sx.html

The article overall though is enlighting.

Slap a censor for peace.