{"id":3007,"date":"2009-04-21T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T01:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2009-04-21T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T01:15:01","slug":"japan-times-police-surprisingly-mellow-when-dealing-with-japanese-shoplifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=3007","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times: Police surprisingly mellow when dealing with Japanese shoplifting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. Turning the keyboard to Shrikant Atre, frequent letterwriter to the Japan Times, who makes an interesting observation:<\/p>\n

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\n Amazing shoplifting statistics revealed by JT report
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Dear Debito,<\/em><\/p>\n

I was surprised and shocked by the news below. News is about the statistics of shop-lifting (Manbiki) and how the NPA is looking at it. See below. <\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20090413a5.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Japan Times Monday, April 13, 2009
\nTokyo police to survey shoplifting suspects
\nKyodo News
\nThe Metropolitan Police Department has decided to conduct a survey on about 2,000 shoplifting suspects concerning their motives and whether they premeditated the crime as the number of shoplifting cases has been on the rise, according to Tokyo police officials.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


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Finding out more about the living conditions and the mental state of such suspects could help prevent further escalation of shoplifting crimes, the officials said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The police will collect information based on questioning for about two months from later this month, covering 30 survey items including the suspect’s occupational status and whether they are on welfare.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


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The survey items also include why the suspects chose a particular shop and if there was something that could have prevented them from carrying out the crime.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


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The police will compile the data by dividing up the results into first-time offenders and repeat offenders…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rest of the article at http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20090413a5.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

COMMENT: I think any crime is a crime. If the NPA tries to solve the problem by “counselling and trying to find out Mental State of criminals involved in these cases” this must be another form to forcibly reduce crime rate of (I suspect crimes done by J citizens) in Japan.<\/em><\/p>\n

I wanted JT to find out that out of the 17,816 cases alone in Tokyo last year, how many were NJ criminals ? How many J criminals have been “Councelled and Let to go with a small verbal notice”.<\/em><\/p>\n

The same report states that “Items worth over 300 billion yen are shoplifted each year in Japan where the crime is usually seen as a minor offense”.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, if there are 145,429 cases reported in last year in Japan which has a population of 125 million, it means that 1.16 percent of all the Japanese people (unless only NJ did all the said crimes) ARE Criminals. Good indication ! All the world should watch Japanese Tourists instead of making a YOKOSO to them. Also the same report statistics if believed, these 1.16% people stole goods worth of 300 billion yen \/ year in Japan, means 2400 yen of shoplifting per capita or a Whopping 2.06 million yens of heist apiece by caught criminals (145,429 only) ? I am literally amazed by these statistics.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also if stealing goods worth to the max tune of average 2 million yen is a “minor offense” as NPA \/ report says about it, what kind of message are J criminals sending to NJ criminals ?<\/em><\/p>\n

I want all (the J and NJ community) to seriously think of the report and tell us incidents where an NJ was targeted even for a mistaken good stealing accusation (of some 200 or 300 yen worth goods) which may have accidentally fallen in his bags, being caught and being immediately detained and subsequently deported. Yes, I had seen that on TV serials about MANBIKI, also heard about such stories in past.<\/em><\/p>\n

In my thinking (I repeat my view here), stealing even 1 yen worth of goods \/ money that does not belong to oneself, is a Crime. And seeing how the news talks about it, I am shocked, amazed, bewildered.<\/em><\/p>\n

Regards<\/p>\n

Shrikant Atre
\nPune, India
\n http:\/\/www.japanmitra.com<\/a>
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\nENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shrikant Atre comments on Japan Times article on shoplifting, where Japanese suspects are getting kid-gloved by the NPA: <\/p>\n

“I think any crime is a crime. If the NPA tries to solve the problem by “counselling and trying to find out Mental State of criminals involved in these cases” this must be another form to forcibly reduce crime rate of (I suspect crimes done by J citizens) in Japan.<\/p>\n

I wanted JT to find out that out of the 17,816 cases alone in Tokyo last year, how many were NJ criminals ? How many J criminals have been “Councelled and Let to go with a small verbal notice”.<\/p>\n

The same report states that “Items worth over 300 billion yen are shoplifted each year in Japan where the crime is usually seen as a minor offense”.<\/p>\n

Now, if there are 145,429 cases reported in last year in Japan which has a population of 125 million, it means that 1.16 percent of all the Japanese people (unless only NJ did all the said crimes) ARE Criminals. Good indication ! All the world should watch Japanese Tourists instead of making a YOKOSO to them. Also the same report statistics if believed, these 1.16% people stole goods worth of 300 billion yen \/ year in Japan, means 2400 yen of shoplifting per capita or a Whopping 2.06 million yens of heist apiece by caught criminals (145,429 only) ? I am literally amazed by these statistics.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","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=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}