{"id":5385,"date":"2011-02-15T00:20:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2011-02-15T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T14:20:30","slug":"japan-disses-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/japan-disses-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan disses diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/14\/business\/global\/14yen.html?ref=global\">slippage<\/a> from the world\u2019s number two economy to number three will likely unleash more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/03\/world\/asia\/03japan.html?scp=1&amp;sq=hiroko%20tabuchi%20immigration&amp;st=cse\">criticism<\/a> of its highly restrictive immigration policies, especially from the New York Times.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to think of a greater repudiation of the American public creed of maximal \u201cdiversity\u201d than Japan\u2019s stubborn determination to remain monocultural.\u00a0 Japan\u2019s economy may well be stifled by its resistance to immigration, though in sophisticated manufacturing for technology and energy, it has few competitors.\u00a0 However misguided Japan\u2019s hostility to outsiders, the following crime figures, from a forthcoming book by the criminologist Frank Zimring, may explain part of its reluctance to embrace multiculturalism.\u00a0 The rates are crimes per 100,000 of population in 2007:<\/p>\n<p>Robbery:<br \/>\nNew York: 265<br \/>\nLondon: 610<br \/>\nSydney (2006): 159<br \/>\nTokyo: 4.7<br \/>\nToronto: 133<\/p>\n<p>Burglary:<br \/>\nNew York: 254<br \/>\nLondon: 1290<br \/>\nSydney (2006): 1008<br \/>\nTokyo: 137<br \/>\nToronto: 362<\/p>\n<p>Rape:<br \/>\nNew York: 10.6<br \/>\nLondon: 30.7<br \/>\nSydney (2006): 51.4<br \/>\nTokyo: 1.8<br \/>\nToronto: N.A.<\/p>\n<p>Update: New York has the lowest crime rate of any big U.S. city, by several magnitudes, thanks to 17 straight years of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/16_3_ny_cops.html\">Compstat policing<\/a>; put Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Phoenix, Hartford, Newark, or Miami up against Tokyo, and the differences would be even greater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s slippage from the world\u2019s number two economy to number three will likely unleash more criticism of its highly restrictive immigration policies, especially from the New York Times.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to think of a greater repudiation of the American public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/japan-disses-diversity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[718],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5388,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions\/5388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}