Why is there no looting in Japan?

[platinumdude]

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

he 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?

[drafter]

Gotta have chimps if you're going to have a chimpout.

[Antonio]

There was zero crime during Chernobyl. Fervently nationalistic people like Jews, Japanese, Russians and others don`t prey upon each other when SHTF.

[General of Darkness]

The answer is obvious, and the truth is political incorrect. While we live in interesting times, they do suck.

[Buddha]

Antonio is correct, countries with national pride don't do shit like looting. Here in america we have no national pride, we can blame multiculturalism and a rampant materialistic psychosis for that. Though that would be like blaming the symptoms of the disease.

[BrewTech]

Gotta have chimps if you're going to have a chimpout.


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[Antonio]

Antonio is correct, countries with national pride don't do shit like looting. Here in america we have no national pride, we can blame multiculturalism and a rampant materialistic psychosis for that. Though that would be like blaming the symptoms of the disease.


Make no mistake about it, Russia has always had a lot of crime, mostly theft, robbery,scams, violence (but very low rape statistics).
Japan has a lot of mafia activities,Yakuza etc but the national pride commands stopping everything in a true SHTF.
A Russian criminal is still Russian, an American criminal seizes to be an American because of guess what, individualism...
Russian criminals are often extremely patriotic people.

[mick silver]

i seen were the younger people were getting water an giving it to the older people . here they would kill the older person for the f water .

[DMac]

The answer is obvious, and the truth is political incorrect. While we live in interesting times, they do suck.


Truth is a hate crime.

[Book]

http://chabadjapan.org/blog_e/chabad-japan-earthquake-relief-activities/chabad-japan-earthquake-relief-fund/

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[Santa]

Achh! Vhat vood Ayn Rand haf to say off all zees sentimental drivel?

http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/ac358/jackconrad/junk/80225484.jpg

[gunDriller]

it's always interesting to see how people respond in a "clutch" situation.

the Japanese are showing their true character.

[Ragnarok]

Why loot if the entire area is destroyed? Why grab that TV if there's nowhere to set it up and no power to run it?
How do you smash-and-grab food and bottled water out from under tons of debris?

If/when The Big One hits California, it will be a telling comparison.

R.

[Tom Roscal]

the reason is culture, they actually have one.

[Ponce]

There was zero crime during Chernobyl. Fervently nationalistic people like Jews, Japanese, Russians and others don`t prey upon each other when SHTF.


Antonio........I am not with you on that......when the "Jews" cannot fight or steal from others they will do it among themselves.

[nunaem]

No looties. ;D

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?get_gallery=334

[solid]

the reason is culture, they actually have one.


That's right, they have culture, we have entitlement. You can't take culture away from it's people, but what the masses feel entitled to can be taken away.

[Awoke]

The Japanese culture has one tenent that most cultures don't: Honour.

[General of Darkness]

Well now we know where Mamboni has been.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7946/looting.jpg

[General of Darkness]

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/political-pictures-steve-was-still-new-to-the-whole-looting-thing.jpg

[Awoke]

Haha, he overheard some chimps talking about how they could just take whatever pussy they wanted while everything was in chaos, and....

[JDRock]

Gotta have chimps if you're going to have a chimpout.


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[keehah]

Another 'Island' Nation?

http://rlv.zcache.com/israel_map_mousepad-p144131900961846356trak_400.jpg

http://www.rense.com/general13/treasure.htm

In the closing months of World War II, in the Philippines, several of Japan's highest ranking imperial princes hid tons of looted gold bullion and other stolen treasure in caves and tunnels, to recover later. This was the wealth of 12 Asian countries, accumulated over thousands of years.

Expert teams accompanying Japan's armed forces had systematically emptied treasuries, banks, factories, private homes, pawn shops, art galleries, and stripped ordinary people, while Japan's top gangsters looted Asia's underworld and its black economy.

[madfranks]

Wow. I just heard former FEMA director Michael Brown on the local radio saying that the reason we have looting here in America is because the American people don't trust their government to take care of them, while in Japan, they know that their government will take care of them so they will stand in line and remain calm and orderly to get their emergency rations. Wow.

I will try to post the audio once it's available.

[General of Darkness]

Wow. I just heard former FEMA director Michael Brown on the local radio saying that the reason we have looting here in America is because the American people don't trust their government to take care of them, while in Japan, they know that their government will take care of them so they will stand in line and remain calm and orderly to get their emergency rations. Wow.

I will try to post the audio once it's available.


OMG, I have to hear that b.s.

[osoab]

Wow. I just heard former FEMA director Michael Brown on the local radio saying that the reason we have looting here in America is because the American people don't trust their government to take care of them, while in Japan, they know that their government will take care of them so they will stand in line and remain calm and orderly to get their emergency rations. Wow.

I will try to post the audio once it's available.


They still bring Brownie out?

[AndreaGail]

No looties. ;D

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?get_gallery=334


reports are coming in that there were a few looters...

http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL2172/12873626/23695778/395670264.jpg

[madfranks]

Wow. I just heard former FEMA director Michael Brown on the local radio saying that the reason we have looting here in America is because the American people don't trust their government to take care of them, while in Japan, they know that their government will take care of them so they will stand in line and remain calm and orderly to get their emergency rations. Wow.

I will try to post the audio once it's available.


OMG, I have to hear that b.s.


http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/japanese-don%27t-loot-because-they-trust-their-government-americans-loot-because

[keehah]

CNBC: Foreign bankers flee Tokyo as nuclear crisis deepens (http://www.cnbc.com/id/42105046)

"The foreign banker presence on the ground in Tokyo now is very thin and depending on how long it takes them to return there could be lasting implications of that," said one banker. "Every time there's a washout of foreigners in Japan they never quite return in the same numbers."

With bankers joining the growing exodus, private jet operators reported a surge in demand for evacuation flights which sent prices surging as much as a quarter.