[Nyororin]

I also don`t think it`s fair to say "welcome gift" at all.

Japan is a very safe country. The reason this is such HUGE news is *because* it`s a safe country. If Japan were a dangerous country, it wouldn`t be news.
Think about if this had happened in your home country. How big of news would it have been?

I know that when I was in high school, the Chinese teacher we had was raped and murdered by the older brother of one of the students in her class.
It didn`t even make front page, and I am sure there was no international outrage. In fact, it was only news in the school for a week or so.

There are crazy people everywhere, and she was very unlucky to have encountered one. I really don`t think Japan is any more dangerous for foreigners than anyone else. It`s just that because Japan is so very safe to begin with, when things like this *do* happen they are made into worldwide spectacles.

Japan is very safe. You just have to use common sense like you should in any country - because nowhere in the world is 100% safe.