Japan Is Among the World´s Safest Countries, Though It Has a Grisly Record of Mass Violence
(WorldNews Japan)

A 41-year-old man shouting “you die!� ran into an anime studio in Kyoto and set it ablaze Thursday morning, killing 33 people and injuring 36 others. Police said the man sprayed sprayed an unidentified liquid accelerant before starting the fire, according to the Associated Press. The violent attack — one of the worst incidences of mass violence in Japan’s history — shocked the country, where violent crime is rare. According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Japan has one of the world’s lowest murder rates at 0.2 per 100,000 people in 2017 (compared with 5.3 per 100,000 people in...