Perhaps why Japan's Homicide rate is low

As is common in Japan, Aichi police reached their verdict on how Saito died without an autopsy. No need for a coroner, they said. No crime involved. Only 6.3% of the unnatural deaths in Aichi are investigated by a medical examiner, a minuscule rate even by nationwide standards in Japan, where an autopsy is performed in 11.2% of cases.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-autopsy9nov09,0,1736588.story?coll=la-home-world

Kinda of makes you wonder................