5 Reasons why Japen has high media violence but low real violence

1. a relatively smaller effect size may result from differences in how violence is contextualized in Japanese versus U.S. media.
   
2. people in Japan are more likely to pay attention to situational contexts than are people in Western countries.
3. cultural differences in the meaning, experience, and processing of emotions and their emotion–action linkages.
4. The context in which video games are played (public vs private space)
5. Research has also found that the number of friends was not different for frequent versus infrequent gamers in Japan, but that in the United Kingdom frequent gamers had fewer friends than did infrequent gamers