Safe and scary Japan

I still cannot figure out what exactly is going on here.

Japan is safe. Sure it's so safe. You can leave your umbrella at the convenience store entrance while you shop around. And you can park your bicycle in front of your train station for a day only with the little front wheel lock (actually, there's no bike holder on the street anyway). You may wanna carry your purse around but still it's safe to leave your food at the McDonald's table when you wanna use the bathroom. Yeah, you don't have to worry about someone will bring away your stuff. SAFE, isn't it?

At the same time, tho, normal people can easily turn into criminal offenders. TV news everyday reported murder cases, but, those were not occurred at the yeah-seems-to-be-definitely-unsafe kind of site. Those crimes occur at the upper middle class neighborhood. And most criminals we can see on TV news aren't any gangsters or any of those who needed to commit crimes under the life thread circumstances.

For example, one day, I've seen the news of son killing his father, then grandmother killing her daughter-in-low, and a guy killing his neighbor. What a heck. Those suspects may have gone to school, supermarket or work the day before their actions, and suddenly decided to kill someone just because they were frustrated. Scary.

I can only come up with one idea of the possible background of those crimes, tho. Japanese people are always submissive, are patient or are not supposed to say something aloud. They've probably had nothing to release what they have in their mind for a long time and suddenly they are snapped. Being submissive is supposed to be one of our beauties, but, nowadays, the idea of our culture is being misunderstood, I guess.

In Japan, another beauty is that we are supposed to sense what others' are thinking or what others want without them saying anything. But I really think this idea is the reason that takes people to the wrong way.

Say what you want, when you want, yet, nicely.