Only in Japan.

News & Politics
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You know that segment in the TV news trade they call the ‘tail end news’?

Zile news za mwisho mtu wa habari husoma ni kama anataka kuhepa akakojoe, even though he or she had a full 17 hours before hand of day time preparation… of pissing and shi…wait I digress.

Anyway nimepatilia news anchor wa NHK, not nearly as handsome or presentable as the poster boys and girls who read the news here in Kenya. Huko NHK ni wazee ndio wanasoma news na mautambi na facial warts, serious battle hardened journalists. Anyway, the long and short ni ati huko Japan kuna mwizi wa vibeti anatafutwo!

The news anchor was dead serious as he announced the brevity of this piece of news: ‘Be warned all who are visiting Kumamoto Mfukoheshima prefecture
there’s a multiple offense purse snatcher on the loose! In his last crime spree police estimate that he stole three purses containing about 33,000 Japanese yen or $300!’

A huge mug shot of the twenty something year old hardcore gangster is then plastered across the screen followed immediately by grainy security cam footage of the perp getting away on a black scooter! The guy apparently doesn’t even use or own a weapon.

But the most shocking thing I’ve ever heard, ever : “Police chief Harikari Nakamoto apologized profusely to the public for delays in apprehending the culprit and ADDED ANOTHER 1000 POLICE OFFICERS FOR
THE CITY WIDE MANHUNT!! That now makes it a grand total of 3000 police officers to apprehend this notorious criminal! We will keep you informed on further operations.”

End of that piece of news. 3,000 cops after one man! He apologizes and then reassigns 1000 to catch a single criminal…

And this is not new nor strange in Japan, in April this year a police chief in Mukaishima Island apologized profusely, (in Japan public figures apologize every other ten minutes for ineptitude. From cops to politicians to unpunctual train conductors) then put out a 6,600 strong, police manhunt for another petty thief who had escaped prison.

https://m.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2142117/japan-minister-says-sorry-6600-police-join-manhunt-fugitivee .

Na msidanganywe, hatuwezi fika hapo!! From my own observation kuna vitu doable… achievable but Kenyans operating like Japanese… ni ndoto!

Their efficiency, discipline, cleanliness… I’ve seen businessmen and ladies in Tokyo pay for 4 minute hair cuts! Na barber akipitisha even one second, usilipe just walk out. It’s on the house. Time is money there.

As nyeuthis sio siri kuna vile bado hatujamaliza complete evolution tufikie hizi homo sapiens sapiens wa Nippon.

Hatufanani kabisa. And don’t feel bad by the way, there’s nothing to be ashamed of really! We can run and they have mega brains! That’s just the way it is! The way it was meant to be! Naturally! Period.

We can dance, they can barely hold a tune before shaking uncontrollably as if having convulsions.

I have seen Japanese documentaries of some young boys and girls at Sony, brainiacs with PHDs in Engineering in their 20s tumjamaa tunadesign the next generation cameras. Kwa camera ya kawaida ya digital kuna sensor inaitwa CCD. Ni photosensitive chip na ndio brain ya kamenje. Ndio ina record image through the lenses.

In this next gen cameras hazitakuwa na hio sensor, instead kila kitu itakuwa laser. Lasers that detect colour then interpret it and process trillions of colour information within nanoseconds into the sharpest image possible through special plastic prisms…

HAAAAPANA!!! Msijidanganye hatutawai fika hapo. La hasha. Nimekataa. We have not evolved enough as an African species to achieve some things.

Ati Mwangi na Omondi na Wafula washikane wasaidiane pale K.U. watengeneze camera ya laser?! Maongo.

I have even seen young Japanese researchers working on electronic super imaging microscopes that see beyond atom level. Inazoom hadi inaona ukimwi ya uwesmek kwa bone marrow. Sikumbuki ilikuwa inaitwaje hio microscope.

To dominate all the highways on earth ati gari zenyu ndio tunatumia… an Island nation constantly wracked by bad weather and earthquakes. Ati electronics ni nyinyi pia… ni ngumu kufika hio level. But we can be half as good!

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:D:D heshimu village sponsors please…

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Leo ni sunday watu wasome gazeti za wazito kama Economist. Kama unatombana sawa maliza, kama huna kitombi too bad!

[SIZE=7]As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do[/SIZE]
There was just one fatal shooting in the whole of 2015

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[SIZE=5] Print edition | Asia[/SIZE]
May 18th 2017| TOKYO
THE stake-out lasted a week, but it paid off in the end. The tireless police of Kagoshima, a sleepy city in the far south of the country, watched the unlocked car day and night. It was parked outside a supermarket, and contained a case of malt beer. Finally, a passing middle-aged man decided to help himself. Five policemen instantly pounced, nabbing one of the city’s few remaining law-breakers.
Japan’s cluttered streets are not always pretty but they are remarkably safe. Crime rates have been falling for 13 years. The murder rate of 0.3 per 100,000 people is among the lowest in the world; in America it is almost 4 (see chart). A single gun slaying was recorded for the whole of 2015. Evenyakuza gangsters, once a potent criminal force, have been weakened by tougher laws and old age.
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Yet, far from being pensioned off, the police are growing in numbers: beat cops, known colloquially asomawari-san (Mr Walk-around), are a fixture in most neighbourhoods. Japan has over 259,000 uniformed officers—15,000 more than a decade ago, when crime rates were far higher. The ratio of officers to population is very high, especially in Tokyo, home to the world’s biggest metropolitan police force—a quarter bigger than the one protecting New York.

This means plenty of attention for crimes that would be considered too petty to investigate elsewhere, such as the theft of a bicycle or the possession of a tiny amount of drugs. One woman describes how five officers crowded into her cramped apartment after she reported her knickers being swiped from a clothesline. A small army of detectives was assigned last year to apprehend a group of 22 people who had been growing marijuana for their personal use only and smoking it in deserted rural spots.

In fact, as the police run out of things to do, they are becoming more inventive about what constitutes a crime, says Kanako Takayama of Kyoto University. In one recent case, she says, they arrested a group of people who had shared the cost of renting a car, deeming the arrangement an illegal taxi. Some prefectures have begun prosecuting people who ride their bicycles through red lights.

In 2015 a man was arrested for scribbling Adolf Hitler moustaches onto posters of Shinzo Abe, the prime minister. Ms Takayama says detectives have started appearing without permission on university campuses, to monitor “troublesome” students. One reason why police are going after cyclists may be to make up for the steady fall in driving offences. (Both drivers and cyclists can avoid fines by signing up for remedial training at certified driving schools, which are often staffed by retired officers, notes Colin Jones of Doshisha University.) Fifteen years ago police in Hokkaido, in Japan’s sparsely populated north, conspired with yakuza gangsters to smuggle guns into the country so they could meet quotas for finding them.

The hunt for things to do may sometimes be beneficial. The number of reported cases of children being abused at home has almost doubled since 2010, despite the declining birth rate. That suggests the police are increasingly intervening in the domestic sphere, which they used to avoid.

Even critics of Japan’s justice system accept that it gets a lot right. Rates of recidivism are low and a great deal of effort is made to keep young offenders out of the prison system; police work with parents to keep young people on the straight and narrow. Adults are incarcerated at a far lower rate than in most rich countries: 45 per 100,000, compared with 146 in Britain and 666 in the United States.

Yet the police are oddly inefficient. Even though there are so many officers and so few crimes, they solve less than 30% of them. Confessions, often made under duress, form the basis of most criminal prosecutions. The courts dismissed the case of the beer thief in Kagoshima, despite all the work that went into it. Japan is almost crime-free not thanks to the police, says Yoshihiro Yasuda, a campaigning lawyer, but because people police themselves.

This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Petty officers”

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This is a country where CEO’s commit sepukku when they fail in their duties.
I’m not even surprised. They wear the badge of honor well.

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I totally agree. We are a few steps behind in terms of evolution. Our behaviour and general character as black people sometimes puts us closer to gorilla than to other human races. Si ati huwa tunaonewa.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/world-cup-2018-japan-fans-vs-belgium-clean-up-stadium-team-changing-room-thank-you-note-a8428666.html

This is the kind of mindset it takes to build such a country.
Its always about what you can do for your country,not what your country can do for you.

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I disagree. That is how we have been conditioned to think,especially by the western world. So,they got there first before us but they also went through the ‘barbarian’ ages.
We will get there.

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Let’s

Let’s pray and hope that somehow, we shall find ourselves there!

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We shall…it may happen when we are long gone though. :smiley:

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To me that could be no less than 500 years to come.

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It has been their culture to be disciplined and respectful and avoid disgrace for centuries, in world war 2 the soldiers had a small knife that they would use to stab themselves and commit suicide instead of been captured and taken in as prisoners by the enemies, saying Africans haven’t fully evolved because we do not have the same culture is inferior way of thinking

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We can learn their tech but not their social life,it is terrible

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Tulia kiasi. At times it is pointless to hold nyeuthis to Western (Asian in this case) standards. Can a Japanese, living in deep in Kumamoto achieve the revered kijiji threshold ? Ha! :smiley:

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What’s this African culture then? Do you think it will propel us to the heights the Japanese have reached? Am assuming that we as a people want to reach these Heights.

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All my college professors wamesomea Japan. Let’s just say it was a nightmare trying to meet their standards.

I know a few Japs who escaped to africa because they couldn’t keep up. They like Africa because it’s dynamic and chaotic compared to organized Japan.

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Aiih! Hata wewe hauoni wajapan kama wako na kasoro?

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Mimi naona wako sawa kabisa.

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Hiyo maisha ni ngumu. Ni kama kuwa na prefects na shule tulimaliza.

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I read somewhere some Japanese giving their experiences here in kenya. One was saying the 1st time he got into a matatu he was totally amazed in that the matatu was still moving while passengers were still getting in :smiley: and others were getting out at the same time, so he was like what is happening here :D:D . I know he loved some bit of chaos away from the norm

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To have uniform and high standards like the Japanese in a multicultural and diverse Africa is not possible