NEWS ON JAPAN
 
Japan had plenty to boast last week when Tokyo was named as the safest city in the world by The Economist, with Osaka coming in a respectable third.
 
Netizens were proud that even with Tokyo's famously terrible (and sometimes dangerous) commutes and Osaka's penchant for strange crimes, the two cities stood out to claim top spots among some of the largest cities in the world.
 
Click below to find out what made the two Japanese cities rank so high and which other cities made the list!
 
The study, called The Safe Cities Index 2015, looked at 50 of the biggest cities on every continent and scored them across four safety categories. Aside from personal safety and the risk of violent crime, the ranking took into account health security, infrastructure safety and even how a city protects its citizens' digital privacy.

Tokyo scored highest in the digital security category while its air quality, improving but still relatively poor, kept it down in the health category. Osaka actually beat out Tokyo in the personal safety category by one spot, but its worst performance was in infrastructure where it didn't even crack the top 10.