{"id":228,"date":"2007-02-20T21:28:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T12:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=228"},"modified":"2007-02-20T21:29:24","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T12:29:24","slug":"japan-times-column-on-foreign-crime-myth-webbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times column on govt and media-generated foreign crime myth webbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Blog.  I just put up my 34th column for the Japan Times on debito.org, as I mentioned I would in my last newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>====================================<br \/>\nJapan Times Community Page Column:<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;UPPING THE FEAR FACTOR:  There is a disturbing gap between actual crime in Japan and public worry over it&#8221;<br \/>\npublished February 20, 2007<\/b><\/p>\n<p>and available at <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20070220zg.html\">http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20070220zg.html<\/a><br \/>\n====================================<\/p>\n<p>However, here is a link to the <b>&#8220;Director&#8217;s Cut&#8221;<\/b>, the essay as originally submitted to the editor, with links to sources for claims made within the article:<\/p>\n<p>====================================<br \/>\n<b>THE MYTHOLOGICAL CRIME WAVE<br \/>\nPublic perceptions of crime and reality do not match<br \/>\nBy Arudou Debito<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japantimes022007.html\">https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japantimes022007.html<\/a><br \/>\n====================================<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t want to post the same article twice on debito.org.  Have a read!  Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Blog. I just put up my 34th column for the Japan Times on debito.org, as I mentioned I would in my last newsletter. ==================================== Japan Times Community Page Column: &#8220;UPPING THE FEAR FACTOR: There is a disturbing gap between actual crime in Japan and public worry over it&#8221; published February 20, 2007 and available &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debitoorg-website-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}