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TV dramas in Japan leading more young people into forensics

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By Koga Hirouchi

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Wait too they are ask to dissect a rotten swollen corpse,full of maggot,they find bodies in all stages of decomposition,they have to he opened up

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When the series "Hotel" was on the air, kids around the country flocked into the hotel industry. When it was about an airline, same thing with cabin attendants and airline related work, firefighters, nurses, OL's the same thing.

Nothing new here.

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It is very good in Japan people find new passions that lead to more professionals..

It happened in the same way when the CSI TV show motivated many to study forensic science..

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In any case, biology and computers are good things to study.

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Only 17 Prefectures have full-time forensic examiners? Wow.

The last time this story was covered on JT was back in 2011 and is worth a read:

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/japans-autopsy-rate-woefully-low

Like that story, this one also dances around the truth by calling autopsy work as "KKK" - unless Japan has a zombie problem, it seems unlikely.

The Japanese avoid death and decaying meat. It's a religious and social taboo. That type of work still tends to be done by burakumin, such as funeral undertakers. And not enough burakumin qualify as doctors.

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This is called the CSI effect

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Even one forensic pathologist in each prefecture would still be too few. There are only 500 board-certified forensic pathologists, in the US. When it needs 1,100–1,200 to perform the needed number of autopsies.

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When I was younger, our whole high school class visited a university’s forensics. That was quite impressive and interesting , considering the science behind, and also was very very scary too at the same time. In fact, it remains in the head for quite a while and of course that photo above is quite a bit misleading, to say it softly. I am not so sure that those young drama viewers are also fit for that real job and can stand it psychologically.

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Millions of doctors experience blood and guts every day of the week, especially in ER depts. Dead ones are no different.

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But despite burgeoning popularity, the availability of fulltime positions in the field at universities is scarce, and securing employment for postdoctoral students remains an obstacle.

This is very important problem for some technical and scientific jobs in Japan, universities are very open to accept as many students (and their tuition) and postdocts (with their cheap labor), because the departments where they are depend on both things to function properly. But permanent or tenure-track positions? those are completely different thing, and very frequently people are forced to give up a decade of studies and experience to work in a completely unrelated field where their degrees are wasted, simply because there is no position for them to fill.

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While medicine forensics may often be thought of the use of medical evidence to be used in criminal cases, the actual word "forensics" means "formal debate", please see dictionary entry, ttps://www.dictionary.com/browse/forensics so it is medical pathology which lawyers may use in forensics or "formal debate" in a court room . . . .

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Going into forensics sounds cool.

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