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"I'm positive we can't be getting the whole picture, because Japanese culture or not, is it really believable that any population would be this calm?"
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it's almost entirely cultural. outside the train stations in tokyo there tend to be thousands of bicycles, and no one locks them...
Posted by
x (aka dmuck)
Mar 17 '11, 08:43
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but they have no real problem with theft. it's an insular, island culture where many actions are proscribed and most everyone follows the rules--especially as regard certain social interactions.
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