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Japan does not have a large underclass. Social services in Japan are generally better for their people than those in the United States.
The buildings in Japan outside Northern Japan are fairly intact.
I don't think city the size of New Orleans was affected by this disaster. If I'm wrong I stand corrected.
The Japanese government was very quick to response with shelters, food, water and other resources. They have already committed 50,000 troops to assist the disaster stricken people. Keep in mind the people in New Orleans did not receive significant government assistance for about 5 to 7 days after Hurricane Katrina struck. This is probably the biggest reason people have no need to loot.
Actually Sendai is larger than New Orleans, in fact, it is nearly twice the size of NOLA.
Not only that, they're attempting to compare what's happening in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami to what started happening after days without resources or rescue, by people who were literally trapped and starving in New Orleans.
Not to mention, they're begin disgracefully racist, considering that white people were "looting", or as they said, "finding" food, too. I think if you were trapped without food or water and no assistance or rescue, you'd resort to taking what you needed to survive, too. I would, and I wouldn't feel an ounce of remorse. I'm not going to die for the sake of some misguided moral authority.
Oh please. As soon as Katrina flooded the area, there were thugs looting electronics and robbing people.
Curious why I haven't heard any news reports of looting, rioting or civil unrest in Japan? Japan not only suffered a Tsunami/Flooding, but also an 8.9 quake?
This disaster makes Katrina look like a day at the park. Yet, you would never know how horrible things were from the civility and calm that Japanese citizens display during this horrible catastrophe.
If they can conduct themselves in such an honorable way, maybe there's something citizens from other countries can learn from Japan?
NO ONE condemns people in a disaster zone for breaking into stores for food and water or other necessities like blankets or diapers. NO ONE.
What we saw captured on video for the whole world to see were hordes of New Orleans residents breaking into all kinds of stores and walking away with television sets, stereos, jewelry and other non essential but very valuable items.
I have no doubt that if the same event occured anywhere else OTHER than Japan, the devastation would've been far worse ... to say the Japanese were "ill prepared" as if another nation could be MORE prepared is, well ... it's downright silly.
Compare to the toll in Haiti from an earthquake with a small fraction of the strength of the one that just pummeled Japan. As earthquakes go, they don't get much worse than this one, which I believe is the 4th-strongest on record. And then it was compounded by a massive tsunami just as bad or worse than the one that killed 250,000 people just a few years ago -- even California is still cleaning up from it. No nation or region would have come out of this in particularly good shape. Even vaunted Japan is not invincible.
The Japanese culture is built on mutual respect and cooperation an exercise in decorum. Japanese do not like to make waves. You would lose face to be a thief and it would be extremely disrespectful.
Americans don't get the concept of "shame".
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