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gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

Well, it's all relative. I have seen cases in the US drag on too, but generally if someone is on the run for a long time, one needs

a) help b) to be intelligent when it comes to avoiding the police and records c) money d) fake ids e) ability to change their appearance

Apsara · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 2142 Location: Tokyo, Japan

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

I side with Apsara on this one.

Though some people might not report someone who had killed someone, but if you're staying in the same dormitory with the guy, unless you're blackmailing him, most likely you don't want a murderer hanging around if you can help it. If he has killed once, what's to stop him from killing you?

Though on the other hand, many people in Japan are police shy; they don't want the police involved if it's at all possible to avoid it. But I would imagine in this case, if nothing else with the reward money, someone might have been motivated (though I believe that no one in Japan has collected any money offered as a reward for a wanted criminal in Japan, it's a recent phenomenon) to report him if they had known, which Apsara and I assert didn't seem to be the case.

ShioriEigoKyoushi · Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Posts: 364 Location: Japan

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Apsara · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 2142 Location: Tokyo, Japan

mrbbkk · Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 70 Location: Tokyo

This type of thing happens every week in Thailand maybe every day

Japan is still way safer than America There are far more murders there
What is one murder in a greater metroplitan area with over 30 million people
How many people are murdered in california in a day or week or year? A lot less than in Tokyo

I lived in Japan for 14 years and never felt threatened with violence

I think your chances of being murdered in Japan are about the same as getting killed by a bolt of lightning

NigerianWhisper · Joined: 21 Mar 2009 Posts: 176

Cool Teacher · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:22 am Post subject:

Shirori chan!

You can't go to the police just because someone, like a co-worker, seems weird. Confused

If we did that we'd be going to the police all the time. Laughing

What about Harold Shipman who killed 250 people or more. He was working for years and years and killing people but no one told the police. Confused

What about that man in Austira who kept his family in a basement for years and the neighbours said he was a great guy and there was another case like tat in America. Confused

Moist people dont jump to the conclusion that because somoene's weird they must be a murderer. Confused

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

That's true, then we might have to suspect bad spellers of being up to no good Shocked

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OneJoelFifty · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 463

Cool Teacher, I hope you're not suggesting that people knew Harold Shipman was killing people but turned a blind eye to it.

I think there are some major differences as to how this would probably have played out in the UK. I think the media coverage would have been greater, and I think the killer wouldn't have even considered staying in the country, but would have high tailed it across to the continent asap. It's not even worth going into how the police would have acted differently.

Perhaps Japanese people simply didn't interfere, perhaps it was a lack of awareness that allowed a fugitive to spend over a year 'on the run' working in a major city. But I don't think you can simply say that the situation was no different in Japan than it would have been anywhere else.

Apsara · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 2142 Location: Tokyo, Japan

But to say that it would have panned out differently elsewhere is pure speculation, no-one can bring forth any proof that it would have been different if it had happened in Australia or Switzerland rather than Japan for example. Both arguments are totally impossible to support, therefore probably not worth having, I have decided.

cornishmuppet · Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 642 Location: Nagano, Japan

Regardless of how they got him in the end, I find it very difficult to believe he would have got away in the first place with nine British police officers outside his front door and on the ground outside his apartment building. I think its pretty safe to say that they would have grabbed him first and worried about the ethics of it later. Making a run for it is pretty much an admission of guilt in my book.

Cool Teacher · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:31 am Post subject:

OneJoelFifty · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 463

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091208i1.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20japantimes%20%28The%20Japan%20Times%3A%20All%20Stories%29

I thought some of you might find this interesting, it certainly explains how he could remain undetected. Also sounds like an area I'd like to visit. Anyone been there?

Threnody · Joined: 13 Nov 2009 Posts: 26 Location: Pennsylvania