The following is what I wrote as my article on my Facebook. This might help you to understand Japan.
Based on one of Chinese media report, if this same scale of natural disaster occurred in China,(and possibly many other countries as well), the death toll should have been a lot higher and also a lot more damages might have been caused including housings' collapse. Japan is, as internationally well known, the country where we have many kinds of natural disasters such as typhoon, eruption, flood, snow slide, land slide, earthquake, tidal waves and so on here and there every ye...ar.
Yet, to be surprising, after these disasters, no crime has been reported while lots of crimes and even riots occur in most cases in overseas countries. Also, it has been very well known that Japanese are very delligent nation as their nationality. One of the main elements forming Japanese nationality is closely related with Japan's geografical causes that bring us such natural disasters all the time.
Kazu

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