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Bag’s Take-Away:
An early theme after Japan’s quake/tsunami (with ugly comparative overtones to Haiti) was that the Japanese don’t loot. This recent newswire pic (caption below) suggests conclusion, at least, might have been premature.
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(photo: AP caption: An evacuee looks at his liquor shop where a thief stole the stuff while his absence, as he and other evavuees, returned home for a brief visit in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, June 4, 2011. The tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is located in the town.)
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