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You know, Johnny Somali fled Japan, went to South Korea, tried the same shit, got arrested and is now in South Korean prison. I think it briefly made news but nowadays I doubt most people remember him.

If you have a functioning society and a petty criminal, you can just... arrest them. No needs for all those xenophobic drama.

Or not, I guess. After all, what am I to tell Japanese people what to expect from their own police?

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Disrespect is no crime in many countries.

Japan has a stricter legal system than many Western countries.

Somali did much more than just disrespect, e.g. deepfake pornography of women he met, trespassing onto construction sites, throwing food in businesses.

Not sure how it's work in japan, but many of these things require a formal criminal complaint in my country and people are not used to disrespectful people.

Saying that it's the issue of a country is wrong and to simple minded.

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