The @BBCNews explains the social & psychological response of the Japanese people to the #quake & #tsunami. #eqjp Colette Bunker in Sendai says: "Since the quake, in what has been a scary and confusing time here in Sendai, the Japanese people have been astonishingly calm and efficient. I've seen no signs of hysteria despite most households still being without running water and electricity. It seems that people have a lot of faith in Japan's ability to get back on her feet after such a devastating event." ... The ordered response to Japan's disaster is down to the high level of education and "collective values" of the Japanese, says Takehiko Kariya, professor in the Sociology of Japanese Society at Oxford University. "In this situation it works well for people to work together and take care of each other," he says. Mr Kariya tells the BBC World Service that with the democratisation of the country since World War II, Japanese citizens have increasingly perceived their society to be a homogenous and equal one. Anybody putting himself first in such a disaster and, for example, trying to jump a food queue, [would be] "socially punished".