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Why is there no looting in Japan?

The landscape of parts of Japan looks like the aftermath of World War Two; no industrialised country since then has suffered such a death toll. The one tiny, tiny consolation is the extent to which it shows how humanity can rally round in times of adversity, with heroic British rescue teams joining colleagues from the US and elsewhere to fly out.

And solidarity seems especially strong in Japan itself. Perhaps even more impressive than Japan’s technological power is its social strength, with supermarkets cutting prices and vending machine owners giving out free drinks as people work together to survive. Most noticeably of all, there has been no looting, and I’m not the only one curious about this.

This is quite unusual among human cultures, and it’s unlikely it would be the case in Britain. During the 2007 floods in the West Country abandoned cars were broken into and free packs of bottled water were stolen. There was looting in Chile after the earthquake last year – so much so that troops were sent in; in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina saw looting on a shocking scale.

Why do some cultures react to disaster by reverting to everyone for himself, but others – especially the Japanese – display altruism even in adversity?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100079703/why-is-there-no-looting-in-japan/

gotta love the culture in east asia, just proves how deep it goes

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There isn't really extreme poverty in Japan.

If there was, there would be looting.

You'd be surprised how some people live and just get on with it tbh

Crammed into flats no bigger than a regular front room

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There isn't really extreme poverty in Japan.

If there was, there would be looting.

You'd be surprised how some people live and just get on with it tbh

Crammed into flats no bigger than a regular front room

\its defo a cultural thing, certain pl need to go beyond their circles

\RADIO YOUR NOT FUNNY. STFU.

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The irony in that is that because you are a Westerner, you see living in small rooms as equal to living in extreme poverty

It isn't.

I never said it was extreme, and it has nothing to do with me being a westerner that smaller living spaces = lower income, and this is exacerbated by the overwhelming lack of space.

You over estimate the lifestyle of some people

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