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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:06 pm
So what are your takes on the rare, yet horrific crimes that have been taking place in Japan? Especially with the youth. Like the infamous Nevada-tan... *shudders*
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:50 pm
I always hate hearing the news. There is always some grusome murder highlighted. Or a suicide.
For all its safety (I'm comparing to USA), when a crime does go down in Japan (usually when murder happens, I mean), it's often so gory and disturbing, more so than a shooting, which I usually see on the news in the states.
Plus the ways these people commit suicide is just.. horrific.
One thing that bugs me is that how "mysterious" the news makes their high-profile stories. Like with murder, suicide, stalkings, while they are talking about it, instead of showing important footage, they usually just focus on where the victims lived/went to school/etc. And nearly everyone interviewed is blocked out in some way (my favorite way is when they point the camera at some random part of their body, quite funny whee ).
But at least I know there isn't going to be a random drive-by shooting while I'm walking down a street. It's nice to know.... surprised
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:21 pm
I tried posting earlier, but Gaia ate my post, so I'm posting again...
Anywho. I think one of the biggest difference between the US and Japan is that the US has many smaller crimes and social disasters and such, where as Japan and fewer, larger disasters. The murders and crime that do happen aren't just a petty drug store robbery that results in a murder. No. When the Japanese want to do something, they do it "right". As for the suicides, did you know aprox. 90 people in Japan commited suicide every day in 03'? 90 people CHOSE to take their own lives everyday. If you go to rotten.com(warning: can be.... disturbing), there is an excellent picture of a Japanese suicide jumper. There was a manga that really depicted this well, called Confidencial Confessions vol. 1. I had to give it to a friend of mine when she was becoming "depressed", and cutting herself. Anywho. Yeah. When the Japanese want to do something, they go all out. They don't hold back the gore, violence, anything. But none the less, I still feel that it's safer there than here. The police are very involved in neighborhood, and I believe that there is atleast one police station on every residential street, and two on most commercial streets.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:49 pm
Yeah suicide... I'm glad I don't go to school in Japan. Way too stressful for me. And I've heard about suicides among highschool students. I really think Japan may need to find a way to make their education sysytem not so... demanding...
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:41 pm
voriathel Yeah suicide... I'm glad I don't go to school in Japan. Way too stressful for me. And I've heard about suicides among highschool students. I really think Japan may need to find a way to make their education sysytem not so... demanding... Well, all Asian schooling systems are like that. I actually think Japan is rather less tough in their education system compared to places like Singapore. The only difference is that the Japanese dare commit suicide. P.S. Morrigana: xd I love how you said when the Japanese do something they 'do it right'.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:56 pm
I've heard about how gruesome the murders can be even though they aren't common. It's creepy. They average 38 murders a year, right? or was that Australia? Hm... But if the rest of the world goes on a killing spree, I'm headed straight to Japan. They won't kill me unless they have a grudge. So I'll be uber-nice. ^_^
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:17 pm
Uber... I love that word! About 'doing it right'. Is there any right way to murder someone? I'd think it was bad through and through.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:40 pm
I don't really keep up with news (Japanese or otherwise, not that I don't want to *shakes a fist at everyone else hogging the tv all the time*)
However the news always seems to focus on bad things happening, murders, rapes, suicide, giant biblical floods and there's hardly any good stuff about "Mrs Jones lived to be 140 today!" or "super scientific breakthrough cures x disease!" It seems to be a depressing sign of the times. Though I'd like to say Japan is a miracle paradise on earth where crime is virtually unknown, it's probably more truthful to say that it has its fair share of crimes but a combination of things means people don't 'go on about it' so much.
I remember a class when I was at school highlighting the differences between US and UK papers and it was surprising to note that if something like a murder happened over here then it's front page news for weeks, but if it happened in the US then it's not such a big deal. Things may have changed since then (that was nearly 10 years ago afterall), but I think it's more to do with America's crime rate than the UK's or, in this instance, Japan's smile
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:01 pm
inuyasha_n_kagome_rox142 P.S. Morrigana: xd I love how you said when the Japanese do something they 'do it right'. Well it's true XD voriathel Uber... I love that word! About 'doing it right'. Is there any right way to murder someone? I'd think it was bad through and through. Yes, I totally agree with you. Petty murders, or well planned out murders, or clean murders or gruesome murders, it's all still horrible. But in Japan, the go straight for the throat. No screwing around with little things, they usually go in for the kill, or whatever the objective may be.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:23 pm
voriathel So what are your takes on the rare, yet horrific crimes that have been taking place in Japan? Especially with the youth. Like the infamous Nevada-tan... *shudders* What the heck is the Nevda-tan?? Is it as bad as the BTK killer? ~*~Rufus~*~
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:12 pm
RufustheSage voriathel So what are your takes on the rare, yet horrific crimes that have been taking place in Japan? Especially with the youth. Like the infamous Nevada-tan... *shudders* What the heck is the Nevda-tan?? Is it as bad as the BTK killer? ~*~Rufus~*~ Look up Nevada-tan in google. She's an 11 year old elementary student, who led her best friend into an empty classroom at lunch, Slit her throat and wrists, then left her there to bleed to death.... I don't think she's quite as calculating as the BTK killer, since he's a serial killer. Who, happily, is caught now! But she must have planned it, thought about it. I don't understand it... she's 11 or 12 for Buddha's sake! eek
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:48 pm
Japan remind me of Maine, a lot less petty crime and then when there is a murder, its MAD weird. Like A kid disecting a retarded boy he knew, or dumping people in vats of cement. (two actual stories) Oo; In maine last year there was a guy who decapitaed his wife and went driving around with the head in his front passenger seat. Just WTF?
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:43 pm
YorikoSakakibara Japan remind me of Maine, a lot less petty crime and then when there is a murder, its MAD weird. Like A kid disecting a retarded boy he knew, or dumping people in vats of cement. (two actual stories) Oo; In maine last year there was a guy who decapitaed his wife and went driving around with the head in his front passenger seat. Just WTF?
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:12 pm
Morriganna I tried posting earlier, but Gaia ate my post, so I'm posting again... Anywho. I think one of the biggest difference between the US and Japan is that the US has many smaller crimes and social disasters and such, where as Japan and fewer, larger disasters. The murders and crime that do happen aren't just a petty drug store robbery that results in a murder. No. When the Japanese want to do something, they do it "right". As for the suicides, did you know aprox. 90 people in Japan commited suicide every day in 03'? 90 people CHOSE to take their own lives everyday. If you go to rotten.com(warning: can be.... disturbing), there is an excellent picture of a Japanese suicide jumper. There was a manga that really depicted this well, called Confidencial Confessions vol. 1. I had to give it to a friend of mine when she was becoming "depressed", and cutting herself. Anywho. Yeah. When the Japanese want to do something, they go all out. They don't hold back the gore, violence, anything. But none the less, I still feel that it's safer there than here. The police are very involved in neighborhood, and I believe that there is atleast one police station on every residential street, and two on most commercial streets. They made this storie into a movie, something like um "suicide club" or something...like all these girls jumped and commited suicide or something and were apart of the "suicide club" they weren't all part of the same school either.
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:55 am
Not too long ago a man kidnapped and murdered a little girl and then sent a phone text message to her mom with a picture attached eek ....the weird part was that for some reason he put tissue around her ears......creeepy. and i heard about that little serial killer girl....i dont know the detail about that though....
Yes...japan has less crime...but it's definitly creepier.. (like when a man murdered his whole family he said "I had to kill them before they kileld me"...can you say phyco? (or can you spell it sweatdrop )
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