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Stop, Thief! Thank You.

Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honesty.

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Correction, March 17, 2011: This article originally misattributed data on the clearance rate for murder to Jake Adelstein. In fact, that statistic was provided by Mark D. West. (Return to the corrected sentence.)

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Christopher Beam is a writer living in Beijing.

Photograph of Japanese earthquake victim by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images.