To understand why Japan is safe, we need to understand the Japanese people.
Our ancestors have lived on the Japanese archipelago for 30,000 years, and 15,000 years ago they cooked and ate with the world’s oldest earthenware.
While other continents were hunter-gatherers, the Japanese have been cultivating chestnut trees for 8,000 years, building a sustainable society.
The Japanese also possessed advanced nautical technology and were pelagic fishermen eating tuna 6,000 years ago.
The fact that the Japanese archipelago is located at the edge of the continent shows that the Japanese are a highly intelligent and timid people who seek security and stability.
Eighteen hundred years ago, a queen, Himiko, ruled Japan.
The Seventeen-Article Constitution, written 1,400 years ago, describes the morals that the bureaucrats of the time should keep in mind.
This constitution contains many administrative laws and regulations, such as the prohibition of bribes, the selection of the right person for the right job by those who have the ability, service regulations, awards and punishments, and tax collection.
Furthermore, the Seventeen-Article Constitution also teaches the importance of debate, and Japan has recognized the importance of the spirit of parliamentary democracy for 1,400 years.
In addition, Japan has been an agricultural country since ancient times, and everyone belonged to a village community.
The bonds between the people living there were much stronger than they are today.
Villagers helped and regulated each other in all aspects of daily life, from farming to weddings, funerals, and ceremonies.
This village of about 400 to 500 people had existed since the Jomon period.
In other words, the Japanese are a people who have lived in communities with similar numbers of people for a long time, from the Jomon Period to the Edo Period.
We Japanese have spent most of our history in extremely small settlements on the narrow, small, and dispersed Japanese plains.
For thousands of years, Japanese people have lived in small villages, working together with other people they know, cooperating and sharing the work of setting up irrigation facilities, distributing water, planting rice, harvesting rice, re-thatching roofs, and performing ceremonial rites such as weddings, funerals, and ceremonial rites.
As a result, the Japanese have always avoided disputes within a community and have decided things and resolved disputes through discussions in which everyone in the community participates.
This has honed a sense of order among the Japanese.
Water, which is essential for rice cultivation, could not be supplied directly from irrigation canals to each rice paddy, so “tanokoshi irrigation” was used in many rice paddies.
In this method, water is supplied from the irrigation canal to the higher fields, and from there it drops down to the lower fields in turn.
In this method, the owner of a rice field cannot decide when to fill the field with water and when to plant the rice.
In other words, peasants could not decide the timing of various farming operations or the types of crops to be planted for their own convenience.
In this way, because everyone in a small village knew each other every day, the first priority was to get along with each other so that there would be no tension between the peasants.
Therefore, decisions in the village were made by mutual agreement, rather than by codified agreements that could easily be disputed later.
In villages, the absolute priority was to “avoid raising tensions among acquaintances,” so rather than adhering to strict rules, agreements were made that allowed for ambiguous solutions to any problems that might arise.
Even in the Edo period, the majority of Japanese were farmers.
This system still exists today as the basis of the Japanese way of thinking.
I hope you have been able to see how the Japanese are a people who value stability.
This ethnicity is reflected in the safety of Japanese society, the durability of Japanese cars, the safety of Japanese architecture, the quality and taste of Japanese food, and so on.
In addition, because Japan is a peace-loving people, there is a strong hatred of criminals, and those who commit crimes are treated with thorough contempt.
This Japanese mentality is thought to keep the crime rate in check.
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