[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]----giant post----Inconsistancy
Yes, I'm aware of the Yakuza's existence
Biker Gangs:
Bszoku: Street racing gang, okay?
Jakarta-post article: That's in JAKARTA, not JAPAN.
Back to the Bosozoku, nothing in the way of statistics on the crimes themselves
Health: How is this relevant to the discussion, I'm not even going to look at these
Legal:
Abuse of power, falsifying evidence (1 example), weaker judicial system, far fewer lawyers
Abuse of power result high prosecution rate
Legal system is inquisitorial crap, results in acquittals
I'm not reading a novel
Racism:
(redundant)The wikipedia covers this better.
Some random novel on racism
"Article 14 of the Constitution of Japan states that all people (English version) or citizens (revised Japanese version) are equal under the law, and they cannot be discriminated against politically, economically, or socially on the basis of race, belief, sex, or social or other background.
However, Japan does not have civil rights legislation which enforces or penalizes discriminatory activities committed by citizens, businesses, or non-governmental organizations."
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None of this really confirms that it's a much more violent place than we're led to believe, just shows they're xenophobic racists with a crappy legal system that abuses power and has few lawyers.
Can't you attepmt to provide statistics? And you don't seem like you can be bothered to pull important excerpts from the damn novels that you link.
that seems to be what i was saying in the first place.
on japan being a violent place, it is more then you would think, my point was that the terrible self serving legal system greatly reduces the trust worthiness of any statistics related to crime in that country.
besides that the entire point of my OP was to provide an example, a personal one in fact, of why not all gun purchases are petty.
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