How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, police looking for a crime when there is none is not something to celebrate. Your second point is spot on, though.
I think they were saying that it's a cause to celebrate that police in Japan are bored, not the things they do to fill that boredom.
They are bored because they routinely ignore cases of domestic abuse, sexual assault and harassment, murder, they have corrupt agreements with the yakuza, and on and on it goes.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-fg-autop...
https://www.tokyoreview.net/2017/08/myth-japans-bored-police...
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#63> 1. Electromagnetic records that do not operate in accordance with other persons' intention, or gives unauthorized commands which act against their intention, when another person uses a computer.
They should arrest every second mobile app developer. They collect data from the phone without permission. And then please arrest Google Analytics developers as well.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 99% figure is a common misconception. Prosecutors in Japan are underfunded, so they only try to convict rock solid cases, among other factors. This Wikipedia entry seems to flagrantly defy wiki rules but seems more informative for it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_J...
isn't prosecuting a prank orthogonal to your argument of only prosecuting rock solid cases?
I think "rock solid" in this case means highly likely to result in a conviction, not necessarily "of great importance."
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#65Sadder yet is that modern browsers let you disable these sort of dialogs. I know Firefox does it, I assume Chrome does as well. Wondering what the browser landscape looks like in Japan if it was serious enough to mandate police force?
IE is still the second-most common browser with 14% of the market after Chrome with 58%
Looks like IE is nice enough to run it in a separate process.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
We don’t have to assume that Japan is safe. We have statistics for that.
Unless you are a woman. I was sadly not surprised when I heard from a friend that she had been groped as a preteen in a department store. Worse yet, none of the rest of us were surprised to hear it. It’s normal and unreported. Likewise, there are some claims I’ve read that the suicide rate is high because of murders treated as suicide by police (who have their own quotas) and age inflation due to relatives who don’t…
> It’s normal and unreported.
There is no question that victims of sexual crimes needs to be heard out more. However, your statement is an exaggeration to say the least. Groping is a frequent and well-documented topic on Japanese news. But as is often the case with sensational topics like crime, it is not as commonplace as you make it sound like.
I also doubt that the people around you were "unsurprised" to hear such things happening to your friend. It's just easy to imagine Japanese people displaying seeming indifference because of the sensitivity of the topic. At times, Japanese people can be reluctant to clearly express their opinions.
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#67> 1. Electromagnetic records that do not operate in accordance with other persons' intention, or gives unauthorized commands which act against their intention, when another person uses a computer. They should arrest every second mobile app developer. They collect data from the phone without permission. And then please arrest Google Analytics developers as well.
Has anyone ever been harmed by Google Analytics? I am skeptical.
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#68I think there are two things here: first is that Japan is so safe that police is actively looking for cases to pursue. I remember reading of police putting (as a trap) a case of beer in an open car at a shopping plaza, monitoring it for a week before finally nabbing a retiree who opened a door (whether to "steal" the beer or just to investigate). In and of itself such safely is, IMO, something to celebrate. The secon…
What about the Yakuza?
Yakuza are tolerated by police unless they cross certain lines. They perform an unpleasant but important function of keeping foreign gangs out.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you are a woman. I was sadly not surprised when I heard from a friend that she had been groped as a preteen in a department store. Worse yet, none of the rest of us were surprised to hear it. It’s normal and unreported. Likewise, there are some claims I’ve read that the suicide rate is high because of murders treated as suicide by police (who have their own quotas) and age inflation due to relatives who don’t…
Is the punishment for groping on trains still apologising to the victim on a train platform?
I don't know where you've got that idea, but I'm pretty sure gropers go to jail.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about the Yakuza?
Yakuza are tolerated by police unless they cross certain lines. They perform an unpleasant but important function of keeping foreign gangs out.
I am curious: they never cooperated with foreign organized crime? I find it hard to believe.