Remarkably, theft seems to be non-existent.
Here’s hoping it stays that way.
There are plenty of countries like this.
Edit and yeah everything is on my phone I'm not even carrying a wallet so I'd be fucked.
Something like Watch is harder to get, but can’t be tracked.
Assuming a Rolex gets stolen and reported as stolen, it can never be serviced by any reputable watch repair shop because it will be confiscated once that happens. In the case of Rolex, they will get serviced BY Rolex. Mechanical watches do need servicing otherwise they wont function properly. So even though watches cannot be tracked to the same level of fidelity as say, a phone with an antenna, it will likely still pop up eventually.
You can also make the argument that "Find My" and "activation locks" type stuff just means that the parts are going to get scrapped and sold. That could likely happen in the watch case too, so those features were never a silver bullet.
I’ve had enough of this city and want to move. Japan doesn’t have this problem - the question we should be asking ourselves is why.
The law needs to be far, far tougher on repeat offenders - we shouldn't be releasing criminals who have already demonstrated they will reoffend.
It's a power-law distribution - there's a lot of crime, but only a few criminals responsible for it. That small group of hardcore criminals commits 80-90% of the offences.
Crickets.
