My goodness, what is your point? Japan is unequivocally one of the safest countries in the world. This is a well-known fact and you can look it up yourself if you need a source. Top 10, there ya go. I mean, really, what an odd opinion to stand beside.

The US shouldn't be thought of as a homogenous place. There are parts of the US -- most of it, geographically, as far as I can tell -- which are basically indistinguishable from their Japanese counterparts in crime rates and levels of social trust. Almost every good thing you can say about a Japanese town is true of a (smaller) American town, and vice versa. I've lived in nice places in America where crime was shocking and essentially not heard of; I've also lived in places where some lunatic with a screwdriver threatened to stab random passers-by six times before breakfast, and the police just sighed and took Philip McStabbins to jail overnight for the 262nd time because the DA wouldn't prosecute.

And that's the thing, isn't it? America is mostly super-low crime, but for some reason we have a dysfunctional criminal underclass that just won't go away. Japan seems weird to us because theirs is smaller than ours (and often held in check by Yakuza higher-ups with calmer heads.) Why do US cities have so many neighborhoods where you Do Not Go, while almost all of the US has no neighborhoods where you feel even vaguely unsafe?

So remove hundreds of countries, and then you’ve got what left?

I've never interacted with a Zainichi Korean but as a foreigner who's reported a crime I can assure you that it was dealt with.

It's disgusting you were flagged by the hive mind, but I for one would like to find out more about why Japan is hiding crime.

Don't Asians tend to live longer and have better health in general?

I don't know if it's due to something genetic, or because of something Japanese people do after they're born.

FWIW, Asian Americans in USA also tend to live longer than other ethic groups.

Now that I think about it, I realise USA might be a good natural setting to study these kinds of differences because there's a lot of people from a lot of places over there, unlike other countries where the population is more homogenous. Or maybe I'm wrong (I'm not from USA, but when I visited there I was astonished by the number of people from all over the world who were there).

Apart from the extremes of heteromorphic differences that can occur between different populations of humans, and the small chance that a very small woman might give birth to a very large baby.. What does any of that have concretely to do with society being Homogenous? What evidence do you have that Japan is actually Homogenous? How do you define that.. There is great diversity in Japan...

I thought the birth rate was very low? Did I get that wrong?