TOKYO -- Japan's crime cases decreased last year as coronavirus-fearing residents stayed home, but drug offenses and cybercrime were on the rise.
Police report a 17.9% decline in cases nationwide to 614,231 for 2020, just one-fifth of Japan's postwar peak of 2.85 million cases, reached in 2002. The drop accelerates the downward trend in Japan's crime cases during recent years.
