Just left all my luggage unattended at rural station in Japan to get a bento down the street (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

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Nothing happened (nothing ever happens)

It's so weird being in such a safe place and I live somewhere where we generally never lock the front door. In the US some Karen would probably call the bomb squad or smth.

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[-] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

japan is relatively safe but still, if you're there for any serious amount of time and you continuously do stuff like that your stuff will get stolen like in any other country. it's still a capitalist country with all the struggle that comes with that. while most people are socialized in such a way that it'll control their behavior more than their struggling does, there's gonna eventually be someone whose conditions are so dire that they're just gonna take your stuff

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Sexual assault and murder are likely much much higher than the official rates - CW SA - the case of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joji_Obara is pretty instructive, particularly the police response, and the level of forensic investigation of child death is shockingly low (less than ten percent of unexpected child deaths are even autopsied at all - that's not just no full internal (invasive) examination, but no external autopsy or post mortem CT either))

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I have (unfortunately) heard of that particular case, but that statistic on autopsies is wild--do you have any recommended reading on the topic?

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

A colleague did an interview for a journalist for one of the big news agencies (in person so a bit of a trip from Japan) a decade ago but I can't find it, you'll get most of the relevant results in google scholar using expected search terms (Japan child death autopsy, child death review etc.)