Why is there no looting in Japan?

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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/
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Now are the comments on the blog racist or honest :-

Here's a few but there seems to be a constant theme


justintime said:
This is the dumbest question ever. It's VERY obvious why there is no looting. You can identify it only though the pictures you see here. Lets not play games. Call a strike a strike and balls are balls. No politically correctness. Anyone can see why. And you know it.
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bigfoot1 said:
Again, the answer is too simple for some to accept. There is no looting in Japan because of their higher moral upbringing. As one commentator correctly stated, honor is important there, unlike in America. Theft is frowned upon. I'm an attorney in a big city in the southern USA and have been for over 20 years and I'm amazed at the number of blacks who shoplift, like it's a constutitional right. Many see nothing wrong with it, other than the fact they got caught. You can argue all day long, but the simple truth in America is that blacks make up less than 20% of the population but account for about 75% of the crime. It's not being racist; it's just facing the facts.
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Bama said:
The answer is extremely simple. The last time I checked from the Top 50 Most Wanted Criminals at the official NY police department site only 3 are white. The others are blacks and latinos. And the reason is not a color of the skin but the culture of the entitlements. Because the people which are used to get everything for free considers the crimes and looting just as another way to get the freebies they are entitled.
That's why the leftists always cry foul when someone dares to say it. Because the entitlements are the bribes the leftists pay to get their votes. Of course they pay them with others people money and they will do everything to prevent the normal people from understanding it.
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Bloominlovely said:
I think this is a rhetorical question. It's all to do with culture. Why were we not horrified by the looting in New Orleans during Katrina? Because we expected it. Why are most of the countries in Africa poor and corrupt? Would you expect looting in Norway or Sweden? It's uncomfortable to answer if you are PC but there's a universal truth. When you have a nation of people who are honorable there is no looting, plain and simple.
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londinium said:
No blacks, no muslims, no romanians, no mexicans, no russians, no indians, no pakistani's, no eastern europeans, no spaniards, no greeks, no italians, no portugese - why on earth WOULD Japan have looting when the gutter of the world has not been allowed to emigrate to Japan?
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Reggie said:
Because the Japanese still have honor and there are virtually no black people there. When ever I watch looting videos it's seems always to be Obama voters. Imagine that, they make up 13% of the USA population but do at least 50% of the crimes. What do those facts tell you.
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When I worked in Harrods I used to sit next to the tax return desk.

The Americans would impatiently and distantly ask for their money back.

The Chinese would shout and hit the desk for emphasis.

The Japanese would apologise for even being there.

My colleague next to me even kept a tally of all the people during the day who had annoyed him by race [he was Asian himself]. The Japanese were lowest on that list.

QuagmireUK said:
Do you think people would loot if this happened where you live?
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Yes, I live in Deptford!
 
not really anything left to steal and even if you do nick something you don't really have anywhere to put it.

plus it's hard to get a good riot going when you have to wade everywere.



No blacks, no muslims, no romanians, no mexicans, no russians, no indians, no pakistani's, no eastern europeans, no spaniards, no greeks, no italians, no portugese - why on earth WOULD Japan have looting when the gutter of the world has not been allowed to emigrate to Japan?
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No Americans either, those guys didn't really put on a good show after Katrina.
 
Brits all rallied around each other in the Blitz: I'd like to think we would be pretty good in a disaster. Except for the Sun/Star readers, of course who have pretty much reverted to neanderthalism already...
 
I think one reason could be that most japanese have a good standard of living compared to say egyptians or iraqis. So in time of turmoil japanese will be concentrating mainly on saving their fellow countryman and not care about what is lying around as long as it is not food which they will pick as a human instinct to survive.

On the other hands people who have lived for years in poverty, when some disaster strikes in their areas, they will not just be helping their countrymen but also looting as everything would seem very valuable which they were deprived of for a long time.

So any one who didn't have TV or a computer for a long time, that item will indeed seem as valuable as gold to that particular person.


This is just my opinion:D
 
Because when your house has been washed away, half your family are missing and theres a nuclear powerplant up the road that is potentially about to spew a cloud of radioactive gas over your head you have bigger things to worry about than nicking a new tv?
 
It's magic.

Simple answer - there's nothing left to loot.

Complicated answer - Japanese don't see those luxury items as we do and have more developed priorities too.
 
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Lysander said:
When I worked in Harrods I used to sit next to the tax return desk.

The Americans would impatiently and distantly ask for their money back.

The Chinese would shout and hit the desk for emphasis.

The Japanese would apologise for even being there.

My colleague next to me even kept a tally of all the people during the day who had annoyed him by race [he was Asian himself]. The Japanese were lowest on that list.



Yes, I live in Deptford!
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How long ago and for how long did you work at Harrods?
 
M0T said:
Because when your house has been washed away, half your family are missing and theres a nuclear powerplant up the road that is potentially about to spew a cloud of radioactive gas over your head you have bigger things to worry about than nicking a new tv?
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past incidents elsewhere don't correlate with what would otherwise seem to be a sensible nugget of common sense...
 
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