{"id":9979,"date":"2012-02-29T12:25:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T03:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2012-02-29T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T06:22:25","slug":"mainichikyodo-nj-crime-down-again-but-once-again-only-reported-in-english-and-apparently-not-in-j-mainichi-asahi-yomiuri-or-sankei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9979","title":{"rendered":"Mainichi\/Kyodo: NJ crime down again, but once again only reported in English and apparently not in J Mainichi, Asahi, Yomiuri, or Sankei"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Blog. \u00a0Here we have the biannual report on NJ crime, as always used to justify further prevention and crackdowns on NJ as potential criminals (justifying all manner of NPA budgets and racial profiling)<\/a>. \u00a0But the news this time is good, in that NJ crime is down. \u00a0Significantly so. \u00a0Check this out:<\/p>\n

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No. of crimes by foreigners in Japan drops 12.7% in 2011<\/strong>
\n Mainichi Daily News, February 23, 2012, Courtesy of JK<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/mdn.mainichi.jp\/mdnnews\/news\/20120223p2g00m0dm011000c.html<\/a><\/p>\n

TOKYO (Kyodo) — The number of crimes by foreigners uncovered by police across Japan in 2011 dropped 12.7 percent from a year earlier to 17,286, a preliminary National Police Agency survey showed Thursday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of foreign nationals the police questioned, arrested and sent papers on to prosecutors last year also fell 15.2 percent from 2010 to 10,061. Both numbers have been on a declining trend after peaking in 2005, according to the survey.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreigners with permanent residence status are not included in the data.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the crimes committed by foreigners, the number of fake marriage cases soared 26.1 percent in 2011 to 193, with the number of foreign nationals investigated by police in those cases also rising 17.6 percent to 554.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Police have been clamping down on bogus marriages, believing they are creating the infrastructure for a host of other criminal activities, the survey said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the total number of crimes committed by foreigners, violations of the Penal Code in 2011 dipped 10.2 percent from the previous year to 12,590, while infringements of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and other laws declined 18.8 percent to 4,696.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By country of origin, China topped the list with Japanese police taking action against 4,012 Chinese nationals, accounting for 39.9 percent of the total, followed by South Korea and the Philippines.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of foreign suspects who fled overseas in 2011 slipped 4.0 percent to 677, according to the survey.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Mainichi Japan) February 23, 2012<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Same article (but better proofread) also at The Japan Times at\u00a0http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/nn20120224a8.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Good. \u00a0But here’s the thing: \u00a0If it’s bad news (i.e., foreign crime goes up), then it gets splashed all over the place and a media panic ensues about a reemergent foreign crime wave<\/a>. \u00a0However, when is good news (i.e., foreign crime goes down), one of three things happen:<\/p>\n

1) The Japanese police find some way to portray it as a rise<\/a>,<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) The Japanese media find some way to headline it as a rise (while even, famously, depicting it as a fall in the English headline)<\/a>,<\/strong><\/p>\n

3) They ignore it completely. \u00a0Foreigners can only ever be news if they’re criminals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To support this last assertion, look how the above article was featured in the Mainichi online only in English, as a copy of a Kyodo wire. \u00a0And doing a Google news search in Japanese, (search terms gaikokujin hanzai<\/em> and the newspaper title), I could not find a similar article on this news on the Mainichi, Asahi, Yomiuri, or Sankei Shimbun sites (search as of February 23, 2012):<\/p>\n