Talk:Crime in Japan

message: The introduction reads like an essay with a presumption that crime should increase with industrialization, and with leftist and rightist interpretations. The Social Factors section is an essay interpreting crime in a Ruth Benedict fashion. The Inhumane Crimes section attributes malaise to brutal crime. These essays should be removed from the encyclopedia article. Fg2 03:43, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Essay template

message: Use of the term "Robbery" is misleading if the intention is to provide statistics about theft. And if it does actually mean theft - then I think the statistics have been "cooked".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.27.250.213 (talk) 08:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Statistics

message: http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/crime.html
Did this article plagiarize the above page, or did the above page plagiarize this article? Giving that we're talking about Wikipedia, I'm going to assume the former. --70.131.51.228 (talk) 23:00, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What about the growing instances of reported rape in japan. Like this Super Free thing? I hear the new opinion is that Japanese crime is much higher then previously thought.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.241.173 (talk) 23:09, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There have been controversies in recent years over revelations that police have been doctoring the statistics.  Some police officials had to resign.  Police are also accused of doing little investigation as possible of deaths like suicides in order to keep the homicide rate low.  For example, kids' deaths because their parents suicide and decided to take the kids with them are not considered murders.  Autopsies are rare, so there's often little reason to designate a mysterious death a murder.  I think the rape stat has always been thought to be underreported.  Despite this, I don't know what you mean by "much higher".  I haven't seen anything to suggest "much higher", just "somewhat higher".  Remember we're talking about an abnormally small statistic to begin with.  Even doubling it would give a preposterously low number.  --C S (talk) 14:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 

message: After adding the fact template after the assertion of the importance of the weapons control law in keeping crime low, I noticed that it had been taken almost word-for-word from the Library of Congress country report, the main change having been the removal of the word "effective," presumably to slightly increase objectivity/neutrality.  However, this statement is still very vague and lacking in support.  The only things the claim has going for it are that somebody in the US government made it and that Japan does, in fact, have low crime, which could be explained by a variety of other factors.  What evidence is there that this law has actually been "important" in reducing crime, and is there a way of quantifying that importance? --Joel7687 (talk) 08:08, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is one of those things no one can "know" no matter how expert.  I did just read a New York Times article that states that "experts" attribute the low crime rate to the law and the "tightly-knit social fabric".  Since the Times is not known for shoddy journalism, I'm sure one can find plenty of experts that say this kind of thing.  Whether you would consider their reasoning good "evidence" is another matter.  --C S (talk) 14:17, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  claim of importance of weapons control law 

message: According to the official statistics the highest peak of juvenile crime in Japan occured between 1981-1983, not 1990s or 2000s. Also the highest peak of juvenile felony occured in 1960s. These facts should be mentioned in the article, while many Japanese do not know them and think juvenile crime rates in 2000s are much higher than ever. --RekishiEJ (talk) 19:33, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  About juvenile crime in Japan 

message: Removed the social consequences part about gun laws. It is a legal restriction and the implication is that gun control reduced crime, something debatable and not neutral.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiiscool123 (talk • contribs) 02:13, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Social Consequences 

message: This was from an article on pressures placed by parents, things like In the first six months of 2001, 532 murders were committed by juveniles can be useful if sourced. --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 04:22, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed from another article, possibly worthwhile 

message: There has been a trend of crime increasing among the elderly. It's been reported in the popular press although to date there's been very little academic treatment. It first came to public attention following the release of the Ministry of Justice whitepaper on crime (in Japanese).
I haven't edited any of the Japan related subject so far, but I plan on adding a section "Crime among the elderly" to this article. If that's a bad idea, someone tell me now. All up I figure maybe two paragraphs  --Thepm (talk) 01:08, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crime among the elderly 

message: The second sentence in this article reads "While crime is still infrequent in Japan, the past decade has seen increasing crime" and a citation to a New York Times article saying that crime is still infrequent but rates have "crept up" (while not providing any numbers). Meanwhile, further down the page is a statistic saying overall crimes in 2012 are half of what they were in 2002, citing the Yomiuri Shimbun. 
Which is it? Is crime going down or going up?  
Granted, there is underreporting of some crime in Japan, but barring some huge unreported shift in Japanese society, crime would not have gone down that drastically from underreporting alone.  I suspect the perception of crime rates "creeping up" is a product of confirmation bias coloring the reading of the data. Am I wrong?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.212.105.122 (talk) 04:20, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is crime increasing or decreasing in Japan? 

message: Seriously that is like the prime example of a claim that needs a backing to it. I dont dobt its correct, but really some one get a source on that. I wouldn't know how to do it, im just passing by.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:5:A180:7C3:F0AA:446E:52B9:507E (talk) 05:10, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need a statistic for the claim in the introduction. 

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message: The opening statement that Japan has one of the lowest crime rates links to a, slightly outdated, report on Homicide rate. While this does indicate a low violent crime rate, at least when it comes to reported incidences, it tells the reader nothing about the overall crime rate which can be non-fatal or even avoid physical harm altogether. Additionally the single sentence opener is so brief that I would nominate this article as a stub desperately in need of meat on it's skeleton. Fritz1776 (talk) 16:20, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crime =/= Homicide 

message: Their early operations were usually close-knit, and the leader had father-son relationships.
Father-son relationships... with whom? --causa sui (talk) 02:41, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Close-knit relationships" 

message: There’s nothing on the rate of incidents, here or on the linked article. Additionally, just saying that both Japanese and foreign women are trafficked in Japan is kind of a given. It would be nice to append statistics to that, maybe break them down by gender as well. 
Also, as well as mentioning that they often suffer trauma is not matching the rest of the article tonally. Many people experience trauma due to murder and other crimes but their experiences are not detailed in this article, as it is written in a more academic manner to discuss the statistics of crime in Japan.  hela's_hot_as_hades  (talk) 15:28, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Sex Trafficking” section need specificity