On Sun, 25 May 2003 22:09:18 +0900, Eric Takabayashi
<etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> 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