Yakuza!!! Sorry, I sneezed…
Note how he very carefully slipped in that subtle bit about immigrants being responsible for all crime.
You know. The famed immigrant. Who has committed a huge number of crimes by now.
No no no!
Japan is obviously a magical land with 24/7 wiafus. Where the only crime is weebs defending these wiafus from bullies. No longer losers, they use fantastic powers they unlocked doing little to nothing to get them. They were just handed these gifts instantly from (insert being, artifact, or lineage) to boost their main character syndrome.
They have less than 10% of the crime we do in America. Sorry, I meant billionaires, not direct crime.
A former Prime Minister of Japan. But yeah, still kinda wild to consider.
Also (obligatory): fuck you, Phony Stark
Japan does have much less crime than the USA, and this appears to be due to cultural differences.
Culture is involved in law and crime, but I would argue that the biggest difference would likely be the level of social safety networks enacted by the government. Things like education, housing, opportunities for liveable wages, and healthcare are always going to have a higher impact than culture.
Well, that and every nation gets to determine the laws and when to enforce it. They realistically didn’t really start prosecuting crimes against women up until relatively recently.
My own general impression is the opposite: that culture is the dominant factor. The USA, for example, is far more violent than many significantly poorer countries.
Poorer countries can still offer more social safety networks than wealthier societies. The US is also far more violent than other nations with similar cultures that feature more social safety networks.
Honor is still important to some people
From what I’ve heard, their yakuza gangs are basically more into somehow worming their way into businesses and gutting them financially alongside more digital crime type stuff since the government has made it extremely difficult for them to live normal lives. So it definitely still exists.
The thing is that you basically never see/hear about it in the news. It’s like how you never hear about crime happening in other countries unless it’s a major thing, and even then it’s usually involving people from your country.
The yakuza have been mostly broken up, and the reason they did that is they were semi-legal as a result of their efforts during the rebuilding of Japan post-WW2.
In short, they were basically the only people that had money left so they bought politicians and built buildings until they got enough laws passed to operate in the open.
Ironically, there’s a lot of conspiracy theories about Abe’s assassination actually being a yakuza hit. Abe’s government is both why the yakuza have been debanked and de-legalized and he was rumored for years to have close ties with Yakuza leaders.
The funny thing is Americans that played Yakuza: Like A Dragon probably didn’t even realize they were beating the shit of a young Shinzo Abe analogue in Ryo Aoki.
Shhhh! He was in a k-hole when that happened.
Technically, he was a former PM.
