Talk:Kenji Ohmi
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The article says "Refusal of the Ohmi family to be interviewed for TV (a rare occurance in Japan) is cited as a contributing factor in the difference." What exactly is a rare occurance? Being interviewed on TV in Japan, or refusing to to be interviewed?
- In Japan, media usually have the interview of victim's family within a day of the case being made public (by media themselves) and it will be circulated by media on morning and evening news. When media could not obtain this interview, they usually obtain an interview anyway by targeting neighbors. A Japanese TV media's report of a crime usually goes like "10 seconds summary>15 seconds interview>30 seconds commentators rumbling". So I believe the "rare" in this case is the lack of available interviewed material. American news media generally do not interview or even send a questionnaire to a Japanese person themselves (lack of necessary personnel, money, and also interest contribute to this) so this probably caused further difference as they had nothing to report on. --Revth 02:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
