The overall picture is quite bad as the crime rate is rising in Japan. Big cities like Tokyo, Osaka etc are seeing more crime than where I am residing i.e. Fukuoka.
At my place which is the city of Kitakyushu, FUK, the crime rate has gone up to 500+ per 100,000 residents. This is an increase of 20+%. House breaking and robbery is what I am talking about. Near my home, people are installing security cameras and devices to deter crime.
A konbini near my place was robbed at knife point and an office safe was carted away in broad daylight!
The main reason for higher theft is due to high cost of living and many are without job. An example is a 5 kg back of rice we used to buy was about S$15 and now 5 months later the same cost S$30 which is a 100% increase. A cabbage used to sell for $1 is now $5. There was long queues if there is cheap offer for items in the supermarkets..example: a supermarket near my house was offering a cabbage for $1 and the queue was exceptionally long. Not only that there were arguments and people almost came to blows because of irritation due to the long wait. This is the first time we encounter such an incident. My mother-in-law told us that the Japanese would fight over food only during war time!
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Japanese or those Northeastern Tiongs? Maybe they had been subtley influenced in some way. In Sinkiepore, the Tiongs bring over their low SES culture to add on to our own unique kiasu, kiasi culture and made it worse over the years.
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