Japan's judicial system has something like a 99% conviction rate. It's "safe" because they swipe up every single criminal they can, plus a bunch of random people in the process. So everyone is naturally going to be on their best behavior.

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tristanj 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The claim that Japan is "safe" because it has a high conviction rate is a junk meme. The United States federal conviction rate is essentially identical to the Japanese judicial conviction rate when measured by the same methodology. It's roughly 99.6-99.8% depending on the year.

Japan is safe because of other factors, not their conviction rate.

> they swipe up every single criminal they can, plus a bunch of random people

And this is completely baseless.

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iamnothere 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Exactly. What is it with the weird attacks on Japan here? Chinese sockpuppet accounts maybe?

	▲	tristanj 5 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It comes from a cursory understanding of the world outside of western countries. People watch a few videos on youtube about other countries, or visit on vacation for a week, and assume they understand the mentality of people who live there. It's hubris. Then they apply western moralities to other cultures, implicitly assuming their own western ideals are superior. For example, pretty much everything kulahan wrote in the grandparent comment is completely wrong and is fictitious understanding.
	▲	simianparrot 35 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Or the common HN crowd of liberals conditioned to side with criminals.