This is how people react when they have a racially homogeneous population of an advanced race. Japan is sufficiently far north to experience significant seasonal variations, that require people to plan ahead, build sturdy homes and save up food for the winter. People need to survive as a community, which means there's little room for thieves in places like Japan or Europe. If someone stole from the community, he'd likely be kicked out into the snow to freeze to death during winter (if they didn't chop his head off as a penalty). In either case, the thief would not pass on his genes. After thousands or tens of thousands of years living in an environment like this, many bad genes are eliminated from the population.
In equatorial nations, a rogue individual could always find more food in the jungle and didn't have to be part of a community to survive. So a rapist could spread his genes and a thief would likely benefit from his thievery without penalty.
Notable examples of looting include the Katrina disaster in which Blacks failed to evacuate their below sea-level homes in the face of a hurricane and many proceeded to loot New Orleans including some Black police officers, who were looting in uniform and caught on surveillance tape. The L.A. Riots of 1992 also saw massive looting by Blacks and Latinos throughout Los Angeles County, and the recent earthquake in Haiti was followed by looting â€"many of the victims of thievery and assault were volunteers who went to Haiti to help the people there.
Notice that recent earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan were not followed by massive looting because these natural disasters involved White and Japanese people, who tend to be law-abiding.