Asia | Murder in Japan

Still safe

A massacre at a care home risks provoking an overreaction

|TOKYO

IN A world tormented by violence, Japan is remarkably safe. Muggings are rare and the murder rate low. Last year police recorded just a single gun death in a country of 126m people.

This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Still safe”

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