Are you so naive not to know and understand that there are nuts and weirdos EVERYWHERE? And even if there were none at all there, a little kid could still easily get into trouble travelling around by him/herself.
We celebrate the clinton blow job, the Weinstein casting couch, the Epstein fun flights. We wink when boys will be boys, and never train them to be men. We vociferously defend MS-13, cram terrorist inculcated "refugees" into middle America. Release violent psychotics from institutions and dump them untreated on our streets. We look the other way when women are being harassed. Compare that to post 15, can you imagine any subway riders in this country lifting a finger?
Nuts and weirdos are only EVERYWHERE when they are tolerated ANYWHERE. In Japan they are ostracized, beaten, (see post 37, imagine the fake outrage if a cop beat down a pickpocket here!) or removed from society by the mental health or prison system.
Maybe you like living in a society that celebrates perversion? (Not that there's anything wrong with that!). But if you do, the cost of that is having freaks, nuts and weirdos EVERYWHERE. Enjoy!
BTW, did you see post 9?
What happens when someone asks a Japanese kid ‘where are your parents?’
Do the adults in the area ignore it?
No. The police show up. Here the police can’t even be bothered to take a report from a bloodied mugging victim.