[Palladin]

Thank you for the explanation. You must enjoy living among such people.

[AmericanInTokyo]

When it comes to major-sized disasters and such, while Japanese official emergency and bureaucracy can be horrendous and slow and even inept, on the other hand, the people hit by disasters themselves are as cool as a cucumber...you couldn't ask for a better crowd to be stuck in, a grassroots crowd of say 20,000 other poor souls, shuffling together to safety. You'd have literally little to no worry about crime, looting, rapes. PS I don't live in Japan, but I know the country and its responsible citizens and mindset as well. A lot more following instructions by authorities fo their own good, and a lot less entitlement and pissing and moaning. It might be out of a sense of 'fatalism' and resilience in the face of disasters (shoganai) more than anything else.