Across Asia: Japan
China Daily | Updated: 2009-01-16 07:41
Crime rate falls again
Crime in Japan, which prides itself on its safety, fell for a sixth straight year in 2008 although the number of random attacks nearly doubled, police said yesterday.
Despite a recession and rising unemployment, criminal cases investigated by Japanese police fell 4.7 percent from a year earlier, the National Police Agency said.
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