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If you mean that they have an orderly society, then you are correct. If you mean something less complimentary than that, then you should feel free to go over there and lend your services.
I work for a company that has offices — my colleagues — over there, and having been there for a couple weeks myself, I would gladly trade the people that live there for an equivalent number of residents in many of our big cities here — it would certainly be a net improvement in overall intelligence and civil behavior.

I lived over there. I mean it in a good way. If there was an event or festival they would put lines on the ground for people to follow and they would have some old folks with uniforms and reflector vests on directing people. Most amazingly the people would listen to them and follow directions. They don't mob, they form a line.

In the aftermath of the recent devastating Tsunami, lines were painted or cones put up for the people needing aid, and they kept to it. I saw some pictures of the area 1 year after the Tsunami juxtaposed with pictures of New Orleans 5 years after Katrina. I don't need to tell you which one was in much better shape.

My daughter spent her early childhood there. She had a difficult time when we came back to the states because she was use to the order of Japan. With her it was the playgrounds. The Japanese kids line up to go down slides or for swings or such. Here the kids would bully her back and she did not know how to handle it.

Once when I was over there while in the service we went up on a pedestrian bridge to watch all the people showing off in the intersection below with their cars and motorcycles. There were a whole lot of young Japanese kids up there on the bridge. All these young folks started to suddenly move off the bridge. My buddies and I were wondering why when along comes this little old Japanese guy with a uniform on tapping the rail with a club. We moved off to of course. I doubt a little old guy could move a whole group of young folks off a pedestrian bridge by simply tapping on the rail in this country.