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Crime and Culture in Japan |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Michael T. Lempres |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,127 Words, 13,624 Characters |
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By contrast, natural disasters in America are usually followed by looting and, sometimes, rioting. Often, citizens have more to fear from the riots than the earthquakes, floods, or fires.
This sharp dissimilarity between Japan and the United States stems from profound differences in family viability, community cohesion, policing, prisons, drugs, gun control, and societal tolerance for crime.
Americans pull together in crises better than any people anywhere. They exhibit extraordinary heroism, and individuals risk their own lives to save the lives of complete strangers. Who can forget the men who climbed between layers of the pancaked freeways to save trapped people after the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco? Or, in a man-made disaster, the people who came to the rescue of Reginald De...
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...omic competition.
* The continuing drain from the countryside into Tokyo and other big cities.
Kobe will rebuild the structures destroyed by the earthquake. But the United States, many observers agree, faces a greater challenge in rebuilding the values that strengthen families and communities and reduce crime. And looking to Japan and its own past may assist in meeting that challenge. vbcrlf
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