Japan's youth can't even murder

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Generation gap: Japan's youth commit fewer murders than their counterparts elsewhere.
Asahi Shimbun - 15 April
...in one respect. For all the scolding they take from the rest of us, the youth of Japan are doing all right in at least one important category... MURDER ...``Young Japanese probably murder the fewest people of any youth worldwide,''...The low rate of murderousness in Japan is a recent development..

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Peace motive: Are Japanese men more timid? Or is their low murder rate a product of postwar culture?
Asahi.com Apr 16 2003 2:31AM GMT
...Although youths' reluctance to commit violent crimes is obviously welcome, that lack of energy may have a negative impact on scholarly or artistic achievement-as well as for changing society.
Toshikazu Hasegawa, a professor of psychology at the University of Tokyo and the husband and co-researcher of Mariko Hasegawa, has focused on the declining rate of male deaths by accident.
``There seems to be a decline in so-called manliness and men are more likely to avoid facing danger,'' he said. He found that college students now dislike field work and have tended to avoid visiting other Asian nations and Africa in recent years.
Young Japanese men may simply be more weak and undependable.

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