Police Find Bad News In Good News

[Mulboyne]

The Nikkei carries a report (Japanese) on crimes by foreigners in Japan. Police made 35,800 arrests last year which was a 10.8% decrease compared with 2006. This is the second year of decline which isn't great news for police scaremongering but they quickly recovered their poise and warned that the long term trend is undoubtedly up because the number of arrests is still twice as high as 10 years ago and crimes by foreigners resident in Japan have been rising. They also say that crimes over the last five years are up 30% compared with 1998-2002 and up 70% against 1993-1997. While Chinese nationals made up the largest category of arrests in 2007, up 48.4% against 1997 data, arrests of Brazilians were up nearly six times to 7696. Other news reports citing this data quote police sources as saying that tougher measures to control foreign crime are necessary.

[GomiGirl]

Sheesh - how much tougher is it going to get?

We are already being denied housing, random ID checks in the street, fingerprinted at the airport.

Not to mention the assumption of being guilty of something/anything on sight. Now in GReji's case this is often true - and don't let me get started on Mulboyne's shady activities.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I still like the fact that they ignore the connection between the number of foreigners in Japan and the rise in crime rates. Although I doubt looking at ratios would make a difference to your average Japanese person since they are generally incapable of logical analysis.

[Behan]

I wish they would publish statistics of gaijin as victims of crimes by Japanese people to be fair.

[Greji]

I wish they would publish statistics of gaijin as victims of crimes by Japanese people to be fair.

The reason these are never published because FGs are not allowed to be victims, they are only allowed to be Subjects, or suspects, because they are not Japanese. Old unique Japanese Custom prohibits this.

[Greji]

Now in GReji's case this is often true -

Sorry I couldn't respond sooner, I was out checking the neighbor's clothes line to see if she had finished her laundry yet. Now what exactly are you insinuating here?

[Midwinter]

Personally, I'm a hate-crime waiting to happen.

[Iraira]

I love when they go fishing for excuses. "Gaijin rates are down this year, well, let's look at the overall trend, and it's too soon to tell anything, but just to be safe, let's embed chips in their foreheads."
When the J-life span showed a drop a few years ago, they blamed it on a particularly bad influenza season that knocked a few pensioners off before they could reach an age that would keep the mean static.

[amdg]

I love when they go fishing for excuses. "Gaijin rates are down this year, well, let's look at the overall trend, and it's too soon to tell anything, but just to be safe, let's embed chips in their foreheads."
When the J-life span showed a drop a few years ago, they blamed it on a particularly bad influenza season that knocked a few pensioners off before they could reach an age that would keep the mean static.

That influenza was a foreign virus, so it fed into the gaijin crime stats too!

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: Nearly 150,000 visa overstayers in Japan as of Jan. 1: Justice Ministry

Nearly 150,000 foreigners were illegally residing in Japan on expired visas as of the beginning of this year, the Justice Ministry said Friday. As of Jan. 1, there were 149,785 foreigners staying in Japan without valid visas, down 21,054 or 12.3 percent from the year earlier, according to the ministry's Immigration Bureau. South Korean nationals account for the largest number at 31,758, followed by Chinese (25,057) and Filipinos (24,741), accounting for more than half of illegally residing foreign nationals in total. The number of illegal residents in Japan has been declining since it peaked in 1993, bureau officials said.

[Mulboyne]

[Marked Trail]

Here's another foreign crime update
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Mr. Kim[color="Silver"]chi[/color] steals a Tokyo taxi.

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[eddie]

wonder what percentage of total crime crime-by-foreigners makes up. proly at least 60 or 70 percent.

[sublight]

Their big scaremongering tactic last year was comparing the number of crimes by gaijin in the Chubu region with the number there in 1991 (i.e., just before the immigration laws were changed allowing Japanese-descent Brazilians, most of whom moved to Chubu). No mention of population figures or actual crime rates, of course, just raw, scary numbers.

Did you know that foreign crimes increase by 23 times in Shikoku since 1990? It's a foreign crime epidemic!!!

Which meant, based on the numbers they gave (260-something arrests in 2007) that in 1990 there were just 13 arrests made in all of Shikoku.

[sublight]

wonder what percentage of total crime crime-by-foreigners makes up. proly at least 60 or 70 percent.

2.3% (Figures are from 2003. Even the NPA admits that foreign crime has dropped significantly since then.)

379,000 total crimes, 370,000 by Japanese and 9,000 by foreigners.

The crime rate for Chinese was about 50% higher than that of Japanese, Brazilians were about 20% higher than Japanese. All other nationalities were lower (90% lower in the cases of Americans and Western Europeans).

[Iraira]

So, going to the Brazil fest in Yoyogi Koen the first weekend in September might be a good chance to associate with a lot of criminals, as well as a lot of very very hot half-J/half-Brazilian chicks?

[IkemenTommy]

Mr. Kim[color="Silver"]chi[/color] steals a Tokyo taxi.

No, that seems to be Osaka.

I say deport his dumb ass back to North Korea.

[Greji]

The crime rate for Chinese was about 50% higher than that of Japanese, Brazilians were about 20% higher than Japanese. All other nationalities were lower (90% lower in the cases of Americans and Western Europeans).

Let's see, since we're doing fg's here, we gots to figure it right. Chinese, 50%, Brazilians 20% and othed nationalities 90%.

So that's 50+20+90, so we find that 160% of all crime in Japan is committed by fgs. Hmmmm, sounds like it'll make a good NPA estimate.

[kurohinge1]

. . . Police made 35,800 arrests last year which was a 10.8% decrease compared with 2006. This is the second year of decline which isn't great news for police scaremongering but they quickly recovered their poise and warned that the long term trend is undoubtedly up because the number of arrests is still twice as high as 10 years ago and crimes by foreigners resident in Japan have been rising. . .

That's only because they include "wrongful use of particles" as a crime.

Damn that "causative passive" form! With that "saserareru" bit, it's hard enough just to stay upright.