mogski 0 Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Does this get up anyone elses nose? I find this article would have a less of a "foreign attack" to it if there were comparable figures for the number of crimes committed by J peoples. It surpirses me that English version of the MDN would not think that its readers (foreigners mainly of course or it wouldn't be in English) might find this slightly annoying news. Link to post Share on other sites
Siren 0 Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 The report is probably true. How does that compared with overall crime rate? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 I don't take it personally. There are plenty of reports in all media of crimes committed by Japanese (although there is a shocking imbalance within these reports - LDP politicians getting off scot free for all sorts of wrongdoing.) Just as I don't feel solidarity with every foreigner I see, I don't feel that reports of rising numbers of foreign criminals are an attack on me. I'm more worried about reports of leaks from nuclear reactors in Ehime, and how the management suffers the trial of ... being handed a piece of paper asking them to do better in future. I'm also more worried about the popularity of people like Ishihara, who most definitely has his facts mixed up. Link to post Share on other sites
RayInJapan 0 Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 I don't have any problem with it - looks like their simply catching more bad folks. What gets up my nose is the fact they released the satanic murdering 21 year old yesterday. He's the one who dismembered the little boy 7 years ago and put his head on a pole in front of the boys school for everyone to see. They say "he's all better now". If I were the father of the little boy though, I'd be relishing the fact they let him out of a protective cell...who knows what accident might happen to him now that he's a free man??? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Yeah, that little psycho is something to think about besides the 'safe' nuclear reactors. Link to post Share on other sites
Plucky 0 Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 I don't have any hard numbers on it, but know for a fact that the J government did a huge sweep of ridding the country of middle east people this past year. My roommate and I personally know a few of the people that were caught in the roundup and subsequently jailed for up to 6 months. Their crime? Selling goods on a street not zoned for vendors No visa violations, no real crimes committed, J people selling goods not more than 20 meters away receiving no punishment. It's scary to think that you can burn a woman alive in her car and only get 18 years in jail (headline from Mainichi), but by God, sell something where you're not supposed to and you get 6 months and deported. My roommate actually just went and visited one of the girls in Israel a few weeks ago - she was happy she made it out without more time in the clink. Apparently the experience wasn't all that great in the J jail. Link to post Share on other sites
mogski 0 Posted March 13, 2004 Author Share Posted March 13, 2004 My point was that the article neglects to compare the foreign crims figures with the J national figures and therefore gives no representation of the whole story. I guess maybe I ma just more cynical about this place than I should be. Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 Understand both sides, but I don't get upset about this kind of thing - unless it's really blatent sensationalism. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Lots of Japanese I know seem to make a point of telling me how "foreigner crime" is "out of control". As if I am connected to it somehow. That bugs me. Link to post Share on other sites
cayote 0 Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Geography anyone? Sitting up there on the hill for a while - it's not hard to notice that this is a Land-of-Misty-Valleys. Actually, about 40% of males in Tokyo suffer from 'Tokyo Bowel Syndrome' mainly due to the stress of encountering so many strangers - something that would not of happened in their mountain valley home towns or villages. Foreigners - you know - beings not from the same village or town or valley or island - well they might as well be from outer space or the 5th dimension or something. Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 veronica - I get the same quite a lot and it does grate. You half expect them in the next sentence "hey did you know that Chinese bloke then, the one who was just arrested 700km away".. Link to post Share on other sites
AET 0 Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 Whats the deal with this Ishihara (?) bloke. Is he really racist? Link to post Share on other sites
KlingKlang 1 Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Yes he is. And quite frightening too. That twitch could make him a good Bond Baddie. Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 There is at least 1 job for a rasist political figure in every country. NZ has Winston Peters, oz had Pauline Hanson etc.. I dont know if they actually believe what they say or wether they just know that there is a proportion of the population that will vote for someone that says out there things about forigners and want to get elected. I imagine that the salary for those jobs is above average so that might provide some motivation. Link to post Share on other sites
fukdane 2 Posted April 4, 2004 Share Posted April 4, 2004 There was a big special on the tv today about the Chinese Criminals in Fukushima that are wreaking havoc on the innocent citizens of the ken. It was all very dramatic, and seemed very unbalanced. Link to post Share on other sites
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