indeed it does seem somewhat up my alley i was a japanese major in school and spent a decent amount of time there and obviously i have an interest in guns and gun control as well crimes in japan are very interesting by any measure they have very low crime but not as low i think as is reported many crimes get reclassified as non crimes in order to keep their impossibly high closure rate the homogenity of the society and the social traditions particularly those that let them construct virtual mental privacy and ignore any cognitive dissonance are not things that can easily be replicated in other societies