kayumochi comments

Unemployed drifters from all over Japan have settled in and around Iwaki-shi to get clean-up work at Fukushima Daini and with them have brought crime, from petty to the aforementioned murder. Just ask any Iwaki resident what the town is like now. The Japanese press has largely ignored the matter.

Yes, the migrants/refugees will have to be resettled in Europe but sooner or later the EU will have to get to the root of the problem which means intervention in the ME.

One difference between China and Japan is that China is a powder-keg of different cultures and ethnic groups that have been suppressed for decades. A declining economy may be just the match ...

google "stippy sexless marriage japan" and read not the article but the comments to see what marriage to a Japanese is often like ...

Here we are a decade and a half into the 21st century and Japanese "women in business" are still a rarity ...

Japan has a high tolerance for this kind of thing. Many of us have seen high school girls after hours in Akihabara soliciting joshi-kosei osanpo dates ... in plain view of everyone. As long as high school girls are big business and used to sell, well, most everything, including themselves, this sort of thing will continue.

No, there is no hard data on numbers but that doesn't stop bloggers from speculating like they have done with high school enjo kosai and other Japanese phenomena that makes a good story and gets clicks.