Crime Boom! 'Foreigners were again named'

[Taro Toporific]

Japan crime hit record high in 2002
The Japan Times: Nov. 29, 2003
A record 3.69 million crimes were committed in Japan in 2002, according to a government report released Friday. A white paper submitted by the Justice Ministry at a Cabinet meeting the same day, shows the number was boosted by increases in juvenile street crime, thefts and robbery, and crimes by people working in groups.. The number of criminal offenses dealt with by police in 2002 rose 3.1 percent from the previous year, the report says. The number has grown for seven consecutive years.
Foreigners were again named as a cause for deteriorating levels of public safety.

[Blah Pete]

Blame the foreigners again. Couldn't be the Japanese are really commting more crimes...

I do like this quote though. It is about time the parents of juveniles who commit crimes are irresponsible:

Dropping out of school or being unable to find a job after graduation were common factors that drove youth to commit crimes, the paper says. The parents of such juveniles were usually indifferent or unable to successfully get their children to lead normal lives, it says.

[Robato]

Isnt it ok to beat your kids in Japan? I dont see how parents let their kids get out of control so much here.

If I seen my boy bullying another kid, like I see other kids doing it...I would beat the shit out of him. If I seen my girl walking around with her skirt so high that half her ass is showing, I would do the same. If they live under my roof, they are going to follow my rules.

(Im not saying I would beat the kid to a bloody pulp.....but even a hard look is considered child abuse in the States)

[gomichild]

I really don't know where you people find the time to post so much...to maintain this crime rate we would have to be at it 26 hours a day...

[Robato]

I really don't know where you people find the time to post so much...to maintain this crime rate we would have to be at it 26 hours a day...

Im killing 2 birds with one stone by downloading and sharing non-mosaic porno on Winny while posting here right now!!!

[devicenull]

Isnt it ok to beat your kids in Japan? I dont see how parents let their kids get out of control so much here.

If I seen my boy bullying another kid, like I see other kids doing it...I would beat the shit out of him. If I seen my girl walking around with her skirt so high that half her ass is showing, I would do the same. If they live under my roof, they are going to follow my rules.

(Im not saying I would beat the kid to a bloody pulp.....but even a hard look is considered child abuse in the States)

Child Abuse: How much is too much?

[Nagged]

Foreigners were again named as a cause for deteriorating levels of public safety.

The only real crime I commit here is speeding in rush hour traffic, what do you expect with traffic lights every 100 meters?

[String]

Sorry for all the crime, guys. I'm afraid it's me making all the foreigners look bad. Now I'm off to the mattress shop to wreak havoc with my hasami.



(BTW - do they have those "do not remove" tags on mattresses here?)

[Big Booger]

The white paper says visaless foreigners and people working in groups were increasingly engaged in organized robberies and break-ins in 2002, often through cooperation with Japanese and foreign organizations.

This they often fail to mention when they catch those visa-less foreigners. And why do they not mention that most of the crimes committed by foreigners are visaless??? In other words they are not even legally entitled to be here...

I think crime is increasing, but to pawn it solely off onto the gaijin is just a farce. Japanese themeselves commit most of the crime. Gaijin represent far fewer cases. And if immigration did a better job of finding the illegal gaijin here, that might clear it up a tad.

[kurohinge1]

I knew I should've invested in gaijin crime - it's the only thing that's gone up consistently ... according to the reporting:

Number of apprehended foreigners surges 23% to 20,000

A record 20,007 foreigners were apprehended or reported to prosecutors in 2003 for crimes including overstaying visas, the National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday.

The figure was a 23 percent increase from the previous year...

SELL ! SELL ! SELL !

The number of the foreign criminals who entered Japan on student visas has tripled over the last five years.

Students + away from home + alcohol "crime"
Who would've thought?!

[Ptyx]

Number of apprehended foreigners surges 23% to 20,000

A record 20,007 foreigners were apprehended or reported to prosecutors in 2003 for crimes including overstaying visas, the National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday.

The figure was a 23 percent increase from the previous year...

23 percent hey ? Have you heard about the 23 enigma ?

[kurohinge1]

Have you heard about the 23 enigma ?

Freaky ! I've always like the number 23 the most (although the number 19,213 also looks good in a mini) but hadn't heard of the 23 enigma.

My street address growing up was 23, as was the street address for my oldest friend and also my grandmother, while my wife was born on the 23rd.

Spooky.

[Taro Toporific]

NThe figure was a 23 percent increase from the previous year...

23 percent hey ? Have you heard about the 23 enigma ?

Nah, everybody knows it's only The Number Forty Two (42)that counts.

Japanese Number 42

[Taro Toporific]

UPDATE: Notice the NPA still persists in quoting the number persons "charged," not convictions (even though they much the same here).

No. of foreigners found in criminal cases reaches record high: NPA
TOKYO Aug. 19 Kyodo -The number of foreigners charged with crimes last year in Japan rose by 16 percent in the first six months of this year from a year earlier to a record 10,543, the National Police Agency said in a report Thursday.
The NPA said that foreigners involved in crimes are becoming more organized as criminal cases involving foreigners in groups of two or more accounted for 71.7 percent of the total, up 11.8 percentage points.

[Big Booger]

UPDATE: Notice the NPA still persists in quoting the number persons "charged," not convictions (even though they much the same here).

No. of foreigners found in criminal cases reaches record high: NPA
TOKYO Aug. 19 Kyodo -The number of foreigners charged with crimes last year in Japan rose by 16 percent in the first six months of this year from a year earlier to a record 10,543, the National Police Agency said in a report Thursday.
The NPA said that foreigners involved in crimes are becoming more organized as criminal cases involving foreigners in groups of two or more accounted for 71.7 percent of the total, up 11.8 percentage points.

IS there a comparison between number of foreigner "charged" and total number of foreigners compared to their Japanese counterparts?

I'd like to see those numbers. And I'd also like to see a breakdown by nationality of the foreigner.

[Oradea]

If foreigners were really responsible for the continued rise of the crime rate, it woould mean that we would all have to be out there comitting crimes instead of slaving away over 14 hour a day jobs and battling through the red tape to get anything done at all. 128m poeple in Japan, 3m foreigners, 5% from the west, Well, I'm crap at math, but there just aint enough hours in the day for those damn foreigners to be getting up to so much trouble as well as drinking the countries beer supply dry, and harassing young Japanese femme fatales.

Possibly, I'm just not managing my time optimumly.

[Mulboyne]

Kyodo via Japan Today: Crimes involving foreigners jump 16% to new record in 2004
The number of criminal cases involving foreign nationals, excluding those with permanent residency status, rose 16% last year, over the previous year, to a record 47,124, the National Police Agency said Thursday. The police arrested or sent papers to prosecutors on a record 21,842 foreign nationals in 2004, up 9.2% over 2003, for a fourth consecutive yearly increase, the agency said.
Chinese accounted for 42.4% of the total and South Koreans were second with 9.5%, followed by Filipinos, Brazilians, Thais and Vietnamese. Of 389,027 people charged with the violations of the Penal Code and relevant laws in 2004, foreign nationals accounted for 8,898, the NPA said.
...Violations of laws not of the Penal Code or relevant laws include those of the immigration law, alien registration law and drug-related laws. Although 80% of Japanese involved in the violations of the Penal Code and relevant laws acted alone, 70% of such cases involving foreign nationals were committed by two or more individuals, the NPA said. The NPA said law-enforcement authorities will to crack down on the so-called "criminal infrastructure," referring to criminal tools such as networks of underground banks and groups engaged in document forging.

[Mulboyne]

Reuters: Japan crime report said to unfairly blame foreigners
Japanese police said on Thursday they arrested a record number of foreigners last year, but a Tokyo-based human rights group said foreigners were being unfairly blamed for crime problems..."The report refects the fact that they don't see the wood for the trees," said Akira Hatatate of the Japan Civil Liberties Union. "It is crystal clear that foreigners are not to blame. The foreigners are made scapegoats," he said...Foreign crime is rising as Japan's foreign population grows, but non-Japanese commit only a tiny fraction of serious offences.

[Big Booger]

Anyone have a copy of the full report on the FG crime stats?

[This is a pen]

The number of Penal Code violations committed by foreigners last year surged to a record with 8,898 people apprehended over 32,083 incidents, a report from the National Police Agency (NPA) has shown.

The number of violations broke the previous year's record by 4,825 cases, rising 17 percent. The number of apprehensions -- 173 more than in the previous year -- was also a record.

Police noted a rise in intellectual crimes, especially credit card fraud. A total of 563 foreigners were apprehended over 796 intellectual crimes last year, 66 more people than in 2003. It was the third year in a row that an increase was seen. ...more...

[Captain Japan]

Money-laundering crimes climb to record high
Mainichi

The number of cases in which criminals were apprehended over money-laundering crimes hit 65 in 2004, the highest figure since a law against organized crime was enacted in 2000, National Police Agency (NPA) figures have shown.

In a report on organized crime, the NPA reported 40 incidents involving gang members, 21 of which were also connected to black-market lenders.

"Black-market lending is still an important source of funds for gangs," an NPA representative said.

Of the cases in which apprehensions were made, 50 were for disguising or concealing funds from illegal activities, and 15 were for receiving earnings from crimes....the rest...

64? No zeros missing on that figure?