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One of the darker reasons I've been pulled into an operational call about order drops in a region's marketplace...
Sorry for the ignorance but what's an order drop?
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Japan's justice system has it's flaws just like everywhere else, but they absolutely don't sweep crime under the rug.
You should talk to Zainichi Koreans that live there more. This may be a difficult point to take in a community that views most things based on numbers and data.
The most surprising thing here is that he was shot. How does someone even get a gun in Japan? Number two is he’s the exPM, so what would shooting him gain?
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Sure, but I assume this wasn't out in the countryside either. I can't imagine it would be easy to get close with a shotgun or rifle.
It was in Nara which is a reasonably big city but has lots of surrounding rural areas. According to NHK, police are saying it may have been a shotgun (the article has been edited multiple times and it's even less sure of that then when I left my comment).
I think this is not a coincidence. We are back at mid 30s.
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Japan's justice system has it's flaws just like everywhere else, but they absolutely don't sweep crime under the rug.
They're testament to the successes of a homogenous society at the very least.
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Japanese police don't have a great reputation for pursuing leads, but it is most definitely one of the safest countries in the world.
"Safest countries in the world" is casting a pretty wide net. Yes, there are hundreds of countries worse. What is your point? Remove those worst countries and the US and it is pretty average compared to richer countries in the world.
A few reddit comments pointed that the gun was a shotgun, the arrested suspect was in his 40s and presumably an NCO in JSDF. Nothing about motivation yet, just that he surrendered after the two shots
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Sorry for the ignorance but what's an order drop?
Parent poster most likely works at Amazon. When the rate of purchases falls below a threshold, many engineers across the company get paged to find the issue. As you can imagine a news event would decrease activity on Amazon for a while.