I think this story isn’t getting as much air time in Japan as it should… not because of the right wing activist angle, not because of the suicide angle, but because a guy took a taxi to the south gate of the Japanese Diet building and… pulled out a gun Ok, maybe I overemphasize with…
New facts about the case California has against Miura keep coming out so I’m not going to try to pull new information out of the news… I’ll just try to give a little perspective from over here. The fact is, a lot of Japanese people are pretty angry about this case. There’s a lot of…
This is an update to the story I mentioned in a previous blog post about the Sumo murder case. The stable master Junichi Yamamoto (formerly known by his Sumo name Tokitsukaze) andYuichiro Izuka, Masanori Fujii, and Masakazu Kimura, the three other Sumo wrestlers involved in the assault which resulted in the death of 17 year…
For non-specific reasons, the family of the girl that was the alleged victim of rape by the Okinawan marine has dropped the charges. The family cited reasons such as wanting to maintain privacy, and not wanting to go through the trouble of pursuing the case as reasons for dropping the charges. It may be that…
I don’t want to get all sociological and everything, but I’d like to stress the word REPORTED. REPORTED I urge people who read news about Japan’s low crime rate to keep in mind that this is the number of cases reported and filed officially. There are many cases that go unreported for various reasons, as…
There are nowhere near as many guns in Japan as in the U.S., however they don’t not exist. (That sentence is dedicated to all the grammarians in the audience.) There has been an increase in gun stories in the news lately and several shootings this past year. As far as I remember all the shooters…
I started February planning to count the occurrences of a few major social problems I saw in Japan hoping to bring some awareness people who visit this blog. It seems there are just too many so I think I’ll periodically publish commentary on several stories at the same time. I’ll have to rely on the…
The story about the murder case in Japan that I wrote about here in “CNN Almost Writes Pop-Japanology-less Article” has been described in a bunch of papers as a case of the traditional world of Sumo, and it’s incredibly tough training has produced a murder case which questions the fine line between “keiko” or a…
Well, this is big news in Japan now right. I feel I have to comment, but I also feel that things are moving too fast. Can we assume that there is overwhelming evidence against the defendent because the US Ambassador to Japan has already apologized to the governor of Okinawa? I am not saying that…
woman strangles 13 year old autistic daughter Mother claims she had planned to kill herself afterwards. Does she expect some kind of sympathy or consideration for that announcement? Respect life! Powered by ScribeFire.
I have not been able to find a comment by the mother or father which might give us some perspective on the situation… but 3 months seems a little early to give up on someone. grandma imprisoned for strangling disabled grandson Powered by ScribeFire.
There have already been a lot of stories this year, but I’m just starting on this theme today… I think counting these things will help people realize how big the problem is. For the most part, I’m only counting the articles in English too. If I see a really significant one in Japanese that doesn’t…