[llevrok]

In my 20 business visits to Japan, I was always amazed at how orderly the people are. Some times to a fault by our standards. (except for Saturday afternoon game shows and week ends in Yoyogi Park which makes no sense to this gai jin).

However one day, something "clicked" why. Japan are islands the size of California with livable land mass the size of a much smaller state (after mountains and farm land is subtracted). There are 150,000,000+ people packed into this small space. It's been high density population for centuries. If there was not order and calm, the islands could not survive under such crowded conditions. I think, at this point, it is "genetic" almost.

[Publius6961]

How about the trains? You neglected to mention train behavior during rush hour.

[truthguy]

It's been high density population for centuries.

I've been to Japan over 10 times myself since the mid 1990s. I came to same conclusion that you did. If the United States had the same population density that Japan had, it would cease to function. The whole country or the populated area would look like Lebanon at the peak of their civil war. Come to think of it, Detroit and a bunch of other cities look like that now.