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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  • 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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