This picture amazes me...contrast it with the looters of New Orleans, but Katrina doesn't even compare with the disaster in Japan.
The individuals in your picture probly have not had every arm of the media and every crooked power hungry politician in the Country telling them that they were entitled to take the property of others and that ther were owed a living.
The Japanese will be OK. They are a homogenous people, smart and industrious - and they will pull together. You are absolutely right to point out that there won’t be any looting, rape or robbery.