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Comment on anecdote from article: in many contexts, I think "official" Japan has a comparative advantage on taking, say, eight year olds seriously. Of course an eight year old making a lost property report would be helped to make a full formal report. The. World. Has. Rules.
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It's probably a feedback loop, right
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In both directions, I think; success causes success and failure causes learned helplessness causes failure. I absolutely would, and have, walk a mile to turn in a $10 item in Japan; clearly the police would take that seriously. I'd never do it in US; I'd look unhinged.
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Mostly I like the point near the end of the article about umbrellas being treated as nearly communal. My goodness that would increase efficiency a lot.
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I can't count the times my daughter's backpack has been returned from trains in Tokyo. My son left his Gameboy on an airplane there, and the crew found it and returned it. Industriousness, putting in effort to "go the extra mile" to return property is in my opinion part of it.
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How can a schelling point like this (returning property that would be considered trivial outside of Japan) create, or even exist prior to, culture? It seems to me that the schelling point would be a direct result of a cultural phenomenon.
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Schelling points as a consequence of grueling schooling which would not be allowed without culture leaning a certain way already
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I lost my keys between akihabara and ikebukuro, did a loss report at shibuya, and got them back the day after. Even after living in japan for years, I could not believe it.
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