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04-06-2007, 07:33 PM
"Japan's welcome gift" is not a very fair way to put it, I think. I'm upset by these news too (as would anyone be who's planning on eventually visiting Japan ), but from what I can tell Japan is still a pretty safe place to live, as long as you use your best judgement and don't take any unnecessary risks. At the end of the day the murder happened because some psycho decided to target a trusting young woman with supposedly little experience of the customs and norms of behaviour of the country she was visiting. What surprises me is that the ESL organisation that emplyed Miss Hawker didn't take (greater?) care to inform her of the risks of venturing out alone as a foreigner.
~annelie
"It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -from the film Coach Carter
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