Japan Today Spotlight #65 | Why Japan has almost no gun crime

Japan has about 123 million people. In some years, gun deaths can be counted on one hand. In 2021, just one person was killed by a gun in the entire country.

So how is that possible?

The answer isn’t simply that guns are banned — because they aren’t. What Japan has built is something more sophisticated, and more surprising, than most people expect.

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What do you think ?

• Is Japan’s low gun crime mainly about strict laws — or everything around them?

Chapters

• 00:00 Intro: One gun death in a country of 123 million
• 00:52 The myth: Guns are banned in Japan
• 02:01 The licensing process step by step
• 03:45 Ongoing surveillance and tracking
• 05:10 The cultural layer
• 06:25 The criminal reality
• 08:13 The trade-offs
• 09:13 Could it work elsewhere?
• 09:59 Outro

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