Crime continues to drop in Japan
The Japanese TV new’s obsession with crime might make you miss the big picture:
The National Police Agency said that 1.8 million crimes took place last year _ down 4.7 percent from a year earlier _ with burglaries making up the largest proportion, accounting for 76 percent of total crimes. It marked the sixth year in which crime has fallen in Japan.
The number of serious violent offenses, which includes murder, rape and arson, declined 5.1 percent to 8,588. But murder cases alone rose 8.4 percent to 1,300 from last year _ though they still accounted for less than 1 percent of all crime.
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