Yubi |
8 years, 10 months ago on
Why is Japan so safe?
This one is difficult to explain, these are just my own ideas.
I asked my host father the same question, and he thinks it is partly because of the sense of collective responsibility, and partly because of having a great economy for many years. There is one movie showing the early post-war era, where a robber is being chased by people and he gets in the house of a grandma to hide. The grandma comments "Being a robber is hard, isn't it? You need to be strong and able to run fast, yet you have to keep running away and risk getting in jail. There is plenty of construction and delivery work with decent pay out there, how about trying some?"
I think the high amount of social security helps, too, though we can't beat Europe on this one. I fear that we might have more crime because of the bad economy and poor economic policies resulting in higher economic disparity.
As for safety for tourists, may be it is because the Japanese view foreigners as people who need help (mostly language). Snatching from tourists, something common in many parts of the world, is rare here.