Why are the rape statistics for Japan so low?

Japan's homicide rate has been steadily decreasing since the 1950s, and now the country has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world, according to a new United Nations report. Fewer than one person is murdered for every 100,000 in the population, compared to 4.8 for the United States and 44.7 in Belize. read more

Japanese police are also criticized for failing to take victims of sexual crimes seriously time and again as a result of either chauvinist bias or an inability to investigate such crimes. What are most disturbing are however arguments that the low crime is partially a result of a police culture that are obsessed with keeping crime statistics low. read more