SocraticGadfly: What's behind Japan's post-disaster orderliness?

March 20, 2011

What's behind Japan's post-disaster orderliness?

First, why no stealing, or not much?

Financial incentives for turning in missing property, along with strong community policing.

And, perhaps, as Nick Kristof says, Japanese communitarianism and its version of a British stiff upper lip.

However, some native Japanese say that communitarianism has been fading away for some time.

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