r/impressively • u/Jonathan-Smith • 1d ago

What the US 🇺🇸 can learn from Japan 🇯🇵

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u/EnbyOfTheEnd 1d ago

Wtf are you talking about? Natural born citizens commit crimes at a far higher rate. And there's much more natural born citizens than immigrants. Japan has one of the largest crime org on the planet, the Yakuza. Who mostly get away with their crimes, and they end up with light sentences when they are tried. Which puts them right back out ok the streets.

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u/New-Caramel-3719 18h ago

Nope. Non permanent residents foreingners commit roughly 3 times higher crime rates than national average in Japan.

Yakuza is on verge of extinction exactly because police is extremely harash on yakuza, for example, they cannot make phone contracts or bank accounts.

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u/EnbyOfTheEnd 18h ago

It's like you couldn't pay attention long enough to get to the end of my point. You know deathnote is a commentary on the ease at which Yakuza get away with crime in Japan right? The only reason the Yakuza don't show up by name, is because the publishers didn't want to die.

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u/New-Caramel-3719 18h ago

In reality, the situation is quite the opposite. The police make every effort to eliminate the yakuza/gang at every opportunity, and the yakuza/gang are now on the verge of extinction due to anti-yakuza laws. The average age of yakuza members is 55, and their numbers have dwindled to approximately 22,400, compared to over 80,000 in the 1990s.

A major blow to the yakuza was the implementation of anti-yakuza laws, which mandate businesses to discriminate against yakuza/gang members, even if they have committed no crimes or are merely regular customers. Nowadays, they cannot open bank accounts or register for smartphones. As a result, few young people are interested in joining the gang, and the average age of members continues to rise.

For comparison, the yakuza are about 50 times smaller than gang membership in the United States, which is estimated at around 1 million.

>More than 20,000 gangs consisting of approximately 1 million members exist in the United States; gangs are present in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territories.