LETTERS: NO LOOTING IN JAPAN

To the editor:

As you watch pictures from the horror at Kobe, Japan, have you been aware that not once has there been any mention of looting?

One woman I saw was happy to find her jewelry and money. She was going to put it in a large, closet-type box that the whole neighborhood was going to use for their found objects. Japanese children are taught not to ever touch anything that belongs to someone else. All the objects put in the large box will be there until the owners take them out.

This is surely an extremely admirable part of the family-value system in Japan.

MARY HELEN KINDER FLENTGE

Cape Girardeau