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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
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[–] MoonMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The same table on the Wiki page says that the actual count was 289 murders in 2022. Japan had a population of over 126 million in 2020. If we used your formula, that would mean there were over 289,000 murders in Japan between 2021 and 2022. See below:

230 per 100,000 = 126,146,099 x 230 ÷ 100,000 = 290,136 murders total.

Whereas, 0.233 per 100,000 = 126,146,099 x 0.233 ÷ 100,000 = 294 murders total.

2+2=4, simple maths. But 290k murders per year would explain the population drop, lol.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It turns out that none of those number nor my own numbers are correct. I don't know where these wikis got their info from but the actual total number of homicides in Japan for the year 2022 was 853. That's for the whole country.

There are multiple sources for that number but here is one:

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01860/

Either road, they are doing far better than the United States.