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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] I'm a Japanese-American (nisei) but have been living in Tokyo for the last 7 years, so I'll give you my take on all this. I think that Japanese society is very violent. I get a sense that people are under enormous stress here and are always able to snap and become extremely violent if pushed far enough. I think that this is a a characteristic of Japanese society, in which self-restraint is considered admirable, but that rigteous fury when you have been pushed to far is also allowed. (See, for example, the story of the 47 Ronin.) The trouble is that people keep a lid on things so long that the only reaction to a perceived trespass are no reaction or an explosion. Recently, because of 10 years of recession, people seem to be under more stress than usual and more likely to explode with less provocation. This happens a lot among children and young persons nowadays. No one seems to know how to deal with friction in society except by exploding. I don't know where people get the idea that Japanese are non-violent. This is only government policy. I find the number of nine deaths by knife pretty hard to believe. You hear about knife attacks all the time in Tokyo. Japanese society is also very racist/nationalist. I believe that many Japanese consider themselves superior to Koreans, Chinese and other Asians. This was part of the wartime indoctrination in an attempt to provide a foundation for Japan's conquest of Asia, but I think these ideas are still very prevalent. They certainly consider themselves genetically distinct from other Asians. Japanese are extremely concerned about racial purity. There is certainly a history of hate crime in Japan. During the 1923 Earthquake, several thousand Koreans were killed by mobs and the police after false rumors that Koreans (who were brought to Japan as laborers after Korea was conquered) were poisoning the water supply. Koreans born in Japan must apply for citizen ship. Everytime there is trouble with North Korea, there are hate crimes against Koreans in Japan. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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