rumburak comments

two days ago when i went to sinjuku tokyu hands there even was an announcement that one should watch out as there seem to have been some cases of pickpocketing lately... but that's not really news, there have always been people like that everywhere. in a book about japan, maybe 10 years ago, i read about the author who's wallet was stolen in gym when he was a university student, so it even hjas been published outside of japan that criminal people do exist here, well, besides the yakuza and stuff.

but what about those men who have been forced to go to fukushima by their normal companies because if they had refused, they would have lost their job...? that's a far more serious example. i couldn't imagine any western civilized country ever doing so... affected workers would immediately file a suit because it's pure blackmail and completely non-causal after all.