Suiren-tan comments

No country's laws are perfect, but I have to say that when I visited Japan I felt really safe there. Seems like the system works, in the end.

Just for the record, I am not against death penalty. But, I think that making a person who is sentenced to death sit in prison for so many years is a waste of tax money. The main reason I suport death penalty (and I'm European) is that feeding and caring for (sometimes for 50-60 years) prisoners who don't work and don't contribute to society in any way is damn expensive. Of course we have to make sure that innocent people don't go to prison (getting death penalty or not, sucks either way), but "what if an innocent person is killed" isn't strong enough argument against death penalty, at least for me.

A sad story. It moved me that the father did so much to get his child back (my abandoned my sister and me and wasn't giving any money to help raise us, he would rather financially support his lovers-- yet this man spent 350,000 USD and hadn't given up for 4 years... I wish he was my father), but now the kid lost her mother. Maybe she liked it in Japan more than in the US, too? Either way, I don't find the story (and outcome) positive. It's positive but just for the father, I am not sure about the kid, and it's certainly bad for the mother-- just did commit a crime, but I still feel sorry for her considering her current situation.