Yep. And if you were a food merchant that thought a serious crisis like this was a good time to jack up prices you’d get the same treatment. But either one of those scenarios are about as likely as the Pope converting to Judaism.
Japanese people just do not have that kind of wiring. A person’s place in society and culture is vastly important to them. A looter would not just shame himself, he would shame his family and the Japanese nation as a whole.
This is kind of hard to write about, because we both know that Japanese people are not saints. They have their crooks, con artists, perverts — all the usual riffraff — but something like looting after an earthquake?
Bizarre. Not going to happen.
And THAT, my friend, should be the CNN STORY. They havent the balls to write it though.
It steps on their whole liberal ricebowl of political correctness and victimhood, and smashes it to smithereens.
Having done business with many Japanese business people in the 90’s, I have to say they are skilled negotiators. They are also by and large honorable and keep their word. I have worked with many others who are neither.