TokyoResiding comments

virusrexToday  04:00 pm JST

Why was the girl left alone and why was a balcony window left unlocked?

Children of upper elementary grade are considered responsible enough to be left alone for some periods of time, unfortunately Japanese families are too used to a high degree of safety and precautions that would be basic common sense in other countries are not considered necessary here.

I've never understood the belief among parents in Japan that their kids are completely safe. Children in Japan are kidnapped, sexually assaulted, murdered, or hit by cars just as often as in other developed countries, yet there's this idea that these things don't happen, so it's okay to let kids walk home alone or be unsupervised. It feels like people have been lulled into this false sense of safety that, to me, has never really existed.

Japan seems to suffer from a dangerous normalcy bias, and it makes me sad when tragedies happen that could have been avoided if parents were more aware of the risks their kids face.

Makeyourlifeeasy2015Today  05:44 pm JST

Guys! You are saying as if only in Japan they announce the nationality of a suspect? That's unfair as we hear these kinds of statements in other countries such as the USA and many more. So, when they don't mention any nationality, it's clear that the crime is committed by a Japanese. This should be easy to understand.

I don't get where is the problem here!

If you don't understand, go learn about it instead of having knee-jerk reactions to commenters who do.

TokyoLivingToday  07:51 am JST

Very dubious results.

How come all previous research shows far higher percentages, ranging from 50 - 70%.

E.g.

Mainichi Shimbun (2018) reported that in a Cabinet Office of Japan survey, 70% of women in Japan stated they had experienced groping and molestation while using public transportation.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180330/p2a/00m/0na/005000c

Someone has the spidy senses drunken..

LOOOOOL

He/she might have been referring to this - 40% not 70% but still higher than 10%. That was only last year.

This is not just young people though.

Over 40% of women, nearly 10% of men in Tokyo have been groping victims: survey - The Mainichi

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231226/p2a/00m/0na/004000c

Pukey2Today  02:17 pm JST

Well she certainly didn't help with the birth rate. And does she still believe that the 1923 Kanto massacre was fake? In a country which takes falsification of one's qualifications seriously, I don't understand how she hasn't been made to resign. Mutliple people close to here have come forward to say she faked her certificate and graduation story, and native Arabic speakers have said her spoken Arabic is awful for a "graduate".

She is a bit of a nationalist but has never claimed the Kanto Earthquake massacre never happened.

Her stance on not commemorating it is not much different from the average Japanese person.

There's little love for so-called 三国人 'sangokujin' in Japan.

As someone who has met hundreds of them, I know that the average Japanese English graduate's English ability is pretty awful.

There is controversy over her qualifications, but university qualifications don't count for much in Japan - the university you got into, not the qualification you gained, is what counts.