Japan, South Korea and Taiwan = all awesome

Those three countries are very different, socially, and otherwise, so lumping them together is somewhat fallacious.

I taught in S.Korea and Taiwan, and visited Japan. Night and day, the general vibe and different work cultures.

Japan is so safe single ladies, young girls, and children walk around outside by themselves, enroute, and socializing at all hours of the night and early morning in every part of Japan, north, south, east, west, rural, and cities as well. No where else in the world is that possible.

Not Quite as You Claim wrote:

Japan is so safe single ladies, young girls, and children walk around outside by themselves, enroute, and socializing at all hours of the night and early morning in every part of Japan, north, south, east, west, rural, and cities as well. No where else in the world is that possible.

False. I live in Singapore and it's just as safe as Japan.

And to counter the OP's detractor, he wasn't saying that the cultures are the same, of course culturally and socially they have unique aspects. But he was talking about social behavior and technology, and having lived in North Asia for a few years I agree for the most part.

Kyoto wrote:

Just did a tour of the far east and after getting returning home I am in awe of how orderly, polite and advanced their societies are.

It's almost as if, socially and culturally they're still in the 1950s, technologically speaking, they're in the 2020s. It's a very interesting dynamic - traditional cutlure imposed on a hypermodern landscape. But it seems to work.

It's sad in a way to see what the U.S. COULD be if we didn't let our obsessions with individualism and "freedom" (whatever that means) turn into the disaster that we see today.

The Crime Rate in the USA is getting lower, soon we will be at least as safe and maybe/probably safer than Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, in fact just a couple of months ago Baltimore challenged it's citizens to go 3 days without killing and they met their goal, the 4 other times they tried to go 3 days without killing their were killings on the very first day, this shows where going in the right direction, also in Chicago last year a person was shot every 2 hours, this year it has lowered to a person getting shot every 2 and 30 Minutes in Chicago, we are really making great strides.

11 days, How does Tokyo compare? and if the population size is taking into account.

douglas burke wrote:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/14/us/baltimore-homicide-streak-ends/index.html

11 days, How does Tokyo compare? and if the population size is taking into account.

Homicide rate in Singapore is about 1 in 500,000 annually or about 11 per year. Population is about 9 times as big as Baltimore, so scaled for size you would expect about 1 murder in a Baltimore-sized Singapore every 10 months. I think Tokyo would be pretty comparable, as in it just doesn't happen.

kartelite wrote:

douglas burke wrote:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/14/us/baltimore-homicide-streak-ends/index.html

11 days, How does Tokyo compare? and if the population size is taking into account.

Homicide rate in Singapore is about 1 in 500,000 annually or about 11 per year. Population is about 9 times as big as Baltimore, so scaled for size you would expect about 1 murder in a Baltimore-sized Singapore every 10 months. I think Tokyo would be pretty comparable, as in it just doesn't happen.

Tokyo's homicide rate is 1.3 per 100,000. There's no big city in the U.S. that even gets close to that. Osaka, often considered the most "dangerous" city in the country, has a rate of about 1.8 per 100,000.

For comparison, Baltimore is about 65 per 100,000, St. Louis is 70 per 100,000 and Chicago is about 25 per 100,000. Of course if you remove some "demographic anomalies" cough cough - from our numbers, they're much closer to Japan.

Oh yeah one other thing - everyone there is fit and there are very few overweight people (let alone obese). That's another way traveling to these countries is like stepping back in time. In the 1950s USA, obesity was considered a freakish disease. Now, 40% of our citizens are obese. Walking through O'hare on my way home and seeing all the disgusting fats was truly a depressing experience.

Amerika and white people are done here.

I grew up in the U.S. and moved to Japan. I'd never move back. You don't know real freedom until you've experienced a gun-free society.

Agreed. I taught English in South Korea for 1 year. An amazing country with hardworking, enthusiastic, and unified people. The only thing I missed was space. Its really crammed. Never could go out and get away from it all. Rooting for S. Korea in the world cup.

internal expat wrote:

I grew up in the U.S. and moved to Japan. I'd never move back. You don't know real freedom until you've experienced a gun-free society.

Are you Asian or a white dork?

Pacific Rim poon rocks.

kyoto wrote:

Tokyo's homicide rate is 1.3 per 100,000. There's no big city in the U.S. that even gets close to that. Osaka, often considered the most "dangerous" city in the country, has a rate of about 1.8 per 100,000.

For comparison, Baltimore is about 65 per 100,000, St. Louis is 70 per 100,000 and Chicago is about 25 per 100,000. Of course if you remove some "demographic anomalies" cough cough - from our numbers, they're much closer to Japan.

Or it could be that Japan and the rest of Asia have *extremely* strict gun ownership laws.

FelonDJT wrote:

kyoto wrote:

Tokyo's homicide rate is 1.3 per 100,000. There's no big city in the U.S. that even gets close to that. Osaka, often considered the most "dangerous" city in the country, has a rate of about 1.8 per 100,000.

For comparison, Baltimore is about 65 per 100,000, St. Louis is 70 per 100,000 and Chicago is about 25 per 100,000. Of course if you remove some "demographic anomalies" cough cough - from our numbers, they're much closer to Japan.

Or it could be that Japan and the rest of Asia have *extremely* strict gun ownership laws.

You're right. It has nothing to do with demographics or culture.