Quote Originally Posted by lph View Post
Oh my. That very clearly highlights the difference in culture. That is very impressive, but to me also quite disturbing.
I don't know. Remember how many people did the same thing at Chernobyl. And (granted that the risks were different and to some extent unknown) at the World Trade Center site.

Did you read the Johann Hari piece I linked to?

The volunteers are amazing, commendable, there's no adjective too extreme for what they're doing. But I don't know that they're uniquely Japanese.