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Japan as a whole is largely uninterested in firearms: Graduating police officers most often choose judo and kendo over firearms training. The country's culture doesn't have a history of widespread gun ownership by citizens. Instead, historic influence have made weapons to be seen as "the mark of the rulers, not the ruled". [3]
The Small Arms Survey 2017 [1] provides estimates of the total number of civilian-owned guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 people. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that owns guns, because single individuals can own multiple guns. See also Percent of households with guns by country.
In 2012, Sierra Leone legalized gun ownership after 16 years of a total ban being enforced. [178] According to the act, authorities have discretion in determining whether persons have good reasons to own firearms. The Arms Act of 2021 repealed the Arms Act of 2012, with little change to licensing procedures. [179]
The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department said in a ...
The Japanese arms-export ban, known as the Three Arms Exports Ban, [1] was a de facto law that governed Japanese export of military hardware outside of the country. [2] The export ban was eased on 1 April 2014 by Shinzo Abe during his second term as prime minister.
OREBRO, Sweden (Reuters) -Sweden's right-wing government said on Friday it would seek to tighten gun laws in the wake of the country's deadliest mass shooting at an adult education centre where ...
Japanese citizens were able to enter China without a visa for up to 14 days before COVID-19. Iwaya pointed out that addressing the safety and security of Japanese nationals was important to ...
With few exceptions, [e] most countries in the world actually allow some form of civilian firearm ownership. [13] A 2011 survey of 28 countries over five continents [f] found that a major distinction between different national gun control regimes is whether civilian gun ownership is seen as a right or a privilege.