Why Burglars Pick EVERYONE's House But Skip Japanese Ones

If you're paying every month for a camera that watches your porch: thesafehousebook.com The book is everything that happens before the camera has anything to film, from the five-minute standard and the gravel that shouts to the house audit from the outside, done from your own sidewalk. 482 pages, 86 chapters, every claim in the source ledger. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund. I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan. Everyone says burglary is rare in Japan because the people are honest. That isn't what the numbers show. Japan's own rate in 2002 was higher than America's is today, and it fell by about seven-eighths once the country started treating a house as something a stranger reads from the street. This walks through five things a Japanese house does that you can copy in about thirty minutes, with a screwdriver and a pair of shears. The last part is ninety seconds I spent across the lane from my mother's house with a notebook. Some of Japan won't ship. A lane where everyone knows everyone's car, a police post three minutes from most doors, almost no guns. And an American door already has something many Japanese houses had to buy: solid framing behind the trim, waiting for a longer screw. If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me how long the screws in your strike plate turned out to be, and if looking back from across the street showed you something new, tell me that too. Chapters 0:00 The decision happens on the sidewalk 0:48 The door that was unlocked for ten years 1:27 Two screws shorter than my thumbnail 2:42 What Japan looked like in 2002 4:23 The lock my mother added second 5:20 The side of the house your camera can't see 6:29 What Japan has that won't ship 7:15 Ninety seconds across the street 8:12 My mother's lane at nine at night 9:49 One thing tonight #HomeSecurity #BurglaryPrevention #JapanVsAmerica #JapaneseHome #CrimePrevention