Crime rates will also decline in any country increasingly populated by middle aged people and their cats and dogs – and Japanese authorities under report crime especially various forms of abusive within families/peer groups.
Tokyo uses the “introverted Asian” stereotype to bury other bad news they don’t want to admit to (and to cover up genuinely sociopathic things adult males with families often do.
Their youth are not as introverted as claimed, and have plenty of casual sex and short term relationships, but when middle class parents find out they discourage this by putting all sorts of feelings of shame and angst into their heads that so they do often find it a lot less hassle to find other distractions.
Japanese corporates have also badly polluted their environment over decades, particularly by following US “safety” rules that put business and competition before public good and expose workers to some nasty chemicals. This has got to such extent many young women over 30 have fertility problems, so even those who might be of “lower socio-economic status” find it difficult to conceive, plus a lot of middle class couples emigrate to nearby countries with better weather, raising children there or taking those they do already have with them. Only 18% of Japan is habitable anyway, and 25% of that is now radioactive.
DIY breathalysers were once advertised as hobby electronics projects in the 1980s, around the same time many nations started to crack down on driving (and in many cases cycling) when drunk. The sensor isn’t particularly cheap, it difficult to accurately calibrate it (to the level that would be what the local cops use) without sticking needles in yourself or collecting your own urine and having other suitable equipment to process this, so they fell out of favour when the authorities simply reduced the acceptable limit below the trigger level for these sensors or even made it zero. There exist real breathalysers for smartphones based on the same principle, still not cheap and would leave suspicious data on computer memory likely to survive a crash the road users / passengers may not. it would be available if someone knocks over a pedestrian on their bicycle even if the phone hits the deck and the screen is knackered, making the use of such a contraption even more stupid and sociopathic than it was in “analogue” days…
