Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!nntp-egw.ocn.ad.jp!nntp-gw3.ocn.ad.jp!nd-wst01.ocn.ad.jp!dojima-n0.hi-ho.ne.jp!not-for-mail From: Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: For Eric: A Timeline Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 00:20:46 +0900 Organization: hi-ho Internet. Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <3ED07181.5E8D99F3@yahoo.co.jp> <73c1dvor08s6oj5v8jtt6sqv4fl1iihh1t@4ax.com> <3ED0C07E.9F3BC8AB@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: eaosk52-p98.hi-ho.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dojima-n0.hi-ho.ne.jp 1053876037 49080 218.228.127.99 (25 May 2003 15:20:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: dojima-n0.hi-ho.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 15:20:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:82 On Sun, 25 May 2003 22:09:18 +0900, Eric Takabayashi wrote: >No, other than the fact police had fewer such cases to focus their attention >on, thus an easier time solving the case, Are you claiming that the Japan murder rate in the '30s was less than it is now? Please can you show your statistics for this claim. The best I found was this: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/archive/nsw/msg00014.html which gives a rate of about 3.5 per 100,000 for 1930, versus the current figure of somewhere under 1 per 100,000, IIRC. Ken