Since I am still a fairly new full time resident after 23 years of business and leisure trips to this wonderful country I have to ask this after having the assumption that law and order and good public behavior were pretty strictly enforced.
Without naming names as I don’t want this scumbag to get more views I am getting a lot of stuff in my social feeds about a streamer who has damaged multiple convenience stores, had several physical confrontations, been thrown out of multiple businesses and has had at least 5 or 6 interactions with Police after they have been called. And I am not even going to get into the heinous stuff about WW2 atrocities.
So despite being here on only a tourist visa this person has not yet been deported for what I would consider reprehensible behavior when you are a GUEST in a country that is incredibly polite and welcoming in many ways.
Video evidence of multiple criminal, and at the very least anti-social behaviors yet no police/immigration response?
Why?
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Current ‘police interaction’ count is something like 35+ actually. His days here are definitely numbered. Just need to have someone higher up put some things together.
Has he actually broken laws or is he just rude and annoying? Not a crime to be rude and annoying.
Pretty much takes either murder or drugs to be arrested. I’ve reported chikan and a rapist and they were never arrested even after admitting to the crimes. Just held for questioning and let go because, and I quote “they aren’t a danger to the general public” so there’s that.
Also pretty sure everybody knows who you’re talking about. Not really a niche topic
Yeah that Australian and Somolian guy are a disgrace to the west.
They are online bullies and trolls. I wish they would Stay in the west with their BS, or travel to China or Russia to get silenced cause they are gross.
Just report their videos, and if you see them in person, protect the Japanese girls, people and police, and ask them to leave them alone
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Do you know why they come to Japan?It is because Japan is not dangerous. Because they know Japan is safe.
That’s why they make trouble with Japanese people.
And they make fun of Japanese police.
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Name pls
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If you watch the news you’ll notice that unless it’s 現行犯for something like murder, people often don’t get arrested until months or years after the thing. No doubt the cops are just collecting evidence and since, as you say, he’s just on a tourist visa, they’re probably just hoping he’ll leave before they need to take the step of arresting him
The police have a high level of discretion and power here, so they would arrest someone quite easily – but they tend to be lenient in a lot of cases.
As an example, I ran a stop light (by accident) and was told “please don’t do that”. (信号を守ってください)
That white dude that broke into the (Fuji?) TV building to look at the retro video games (which is located near the PALACE where there is a high concentration of police) did get arrested and deported, though.
I would say that if person X has done things over and over and someone puts that together, then the lenience will stop.
Even though people here often complain that foreigners are singled out and discriminated against (which may be true *sometimes*), it’s equally true that they are often given a pass because “They didn’t understand”, etc.
As far as being a jerk not being illegal, there are enough vague laws that the police can find a day. For example being a “public nuisance” is illegal. So long as a judge agrees (which, from the sound of it, they would), then there is no problem there. I think the problem is more that the people you are referring to are doing isolates stuff here and there and where you see the pattern emerge is on English Language YouTube, etc. – which the police generally don’t monitor because they actually don’t have a vendetta against foreigners (even when maybe they should).
Didn’t the yakuza scare the guy off last time? If he’s in Osaka maybe some chinpira should do some social good.
People who attack people indiscriminately sometimes appear in Japan as well.
People who have given up on life.
I wish those people would attack these nuisance people instead of attacking innocent and unrelated people.
Many would applaud them.
To actually answer your question: the things you would expect to get arrested for.
There are a few things you could potentially be arrested for or have legal action taken against you that you might not be aware of:
– self defense
– not having your residence card
– riding a friends bike without verifiable proof of permission
– talking shit about someone or a business online (even if its factual)
– being surrounded by police officers when you are voluntarily being questioned and being goaded to “assault” or push past one of them.
– voluntarily going to a koban or police station to be questioned
– sleeping with a married person
– having a blade of basically any size if its for “self protection”
It’s not against the law to be a general nuisance or asshole unless you are getting into fights or damaging property. And unfortunately sex related crimes are in no way taken serious enough in this country.. I’ve heard too many anecdotes of people getting away with it because its “his word against hers”
It’s interesting because people get taken in for more trivial things
hope these dudes get deported already I’m 99% they’re on a tourist visa and they’re making cash on said visa which is illegal and just being a bother
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“They” have not committed any felonies yet, so they cannot be deported even though they are really annoying and troublesome, unfortunately.
The paperwork is too mendokusai so they’re just waiting for him to leave.
I’m curious as to how much of this is “real” because all it takes is one combini employee to accuse him of actual damage and it’s over.
The fact that he’s had so many “incidents” and hasn’t actually been arrested leads me to think there is more than what’s shown in the vids; some pre and post discussions etc. because I’ve seen folks arrested for WAY less.
As unfortunate as his conduct is, it’s important that the bar for arresting/deporting people is high for obvious reasons.
As the saying goes “F@ck around, find out.”
Everyone needs to convince him to head to Singapore for his next trip, so he can make graffiti on the walls for “the lulz”.
Today I saw on Twitter another guy going through the women only train cart making a spectacle of himself.
Someone will need to submit a police report (hogaitodoke) claiming they were harmed by him before he can be arrested.
Japan is way too lenient on troublemakers and criminals I wish they would start cracking down harder on law breakers both foreign and domestic.
Being a knob isn’t illegal.
I’m suspicious some of it, if not all, is staged.
Every word we say about him is a win for him.
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I’ve been paying attention to him too, and I really hope something awful happens to him. He’s not someone to listen to reason. He’s purely the lowest of the low.
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I know exactly who you’re talking about. I wish someone would just teach him a lesson. He’s been getting off too easy on all this stuff.
With all the things hes said and done, I’m surprised someone hasn’t snatched him up.
If he is a US citizen, I hope the State Department revokes his passport.
The purposes of arresting in Japan are either preventing the runaway or destruction of evidence. Arresting is not a punishment or for preventing the further crime in Japan.
If the Japanese police arrest a person, they have a strong incentive to make that person guilty of something, anything. Just petty “confrontations” from typical idiotic streamers are, although it’s pretty annoying, difficult to find and apply a law they break.
If that streamer use violence against the police, it’s an easy excuse for police to arrest and prosecute. But it seems that streamer is not crazy enough and he knows what he is doing.
If you are arrested if Japan, they can hold you for 23 days while the prosecutor makes their decision. I’ve got my fingers crossed.
Incidentally, I would bust the guy in the mouth on sight. It would be worth it.
Ahh is this that fucken American dickhead that was mouthing off on the subway? The little retarded looking guy?
He kept mouthing off to the American-Korean guy that he thought was Japanese.
This the guy?
he is making $1000 in text to speech donations every day
Just film him putting ketchup on his sushi.
It is just a matter of actually making him “popular” in the Japanese public’s eyes and steering a huge viral outcry on X (Twitter) – that should be enough.