[JohnBraden]

Yes, there are no random shootings in Japan because the weather is hot and people don't know anything better to do with their time than take it out on others. That happens quite a bit here in one of the murder capitals of the US. Severe gun control in Japan aids that.

When I showed people at work the buttons at each station that, when pressed, stop the trains in the area, they were surprised they existed. They're used to having people vandalize or mess with things here. If there were buttons such as those here, the trains wouldn't run very often due to the hundreds of times juveniles and drunks would be hitting them. Social conformity in Japan probably has something to do with that.

And yes, we've talked about the police and some civil rights in other threads, so not everything is good in Japan. But even then, if you don't commit a crime, you're not involved in that aspect of their society....