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Why is there no looting in Japan?

There are looting, a stabbing and a rape in Japan:

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''It's only natural that people get frustrated,'' said Yoshinori Sato, a spokesman for the city council. ''It's because of the stress. People are hungry and frustrated. I've heard about people screaming and fighting over food.''

There have been instances of looting at supermarkets and liquor stores. Mr Sato had also heard reports about a stabbing and a rape in the town.

''In some cases there were houses that were half-destroyed, and people would go in and look for anything they could find to use or to eat,'' he said. ''I feel sorry for them but a crime is a crime.''

The humanitarian crisis is eroding confidence that Japan, for all its wealth and technological brilliance, is capable of managing a relief effort of such enormous proportions.
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Japan earthquake | evacuation shelters
 
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Disaster and helplessness bring out the worst in human beings.

Overall I think they have behaved extraordinarily stoically in this crisis.
 
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Japanese race and society has greater emphasis on Honor and it is part of their culture, I suppose. Bravo people. Japan is the best country in asia, they came out ruins of WWII in matter of 30 years.

Great country, Great people and Great culture, we can learn a lot of things from them.

Here , We can learn from them :

After the flood: $500,000 taken when Japan's tsunami cracks a bank vault
After the flood: $500,000 taken when Japan's tsunami cracks a bank vault - Yahoo! News

TOKYO - The earthquake and tsunami that pulverized coastal Japan crippled a bank's security mechanisms and left a vault wide open. That allowed someone to walk off with 40 million yen ($500,000).

The March 11 tsunami washed over the Shinkin Bank, like much else in Kesennuma, and police said between the wave's power and the ensuing power outages, the vault came open.

"The bank was flooded, and things were thrown all over. It was a total mess. Somebody stole the money in the midst of the chaos," said a police official in Miyagi prefecture, where Kesennuma is located.

The bank notified police on Tuesday, 11 days after the disaster, said the official, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
 
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