A bit odd that they didn't include Japan in their set of countries. My expectation is that it would have probably topped the list.
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To carry out the experiment, the presenter and his daughter visited the Tokyo Skytree’s Sola Machi entertainment complex’s food court and left a smartphone, purse, and shopping bag full of recently purchased items on table for two. Then they positioned themselves at another table and surreptitiously filmed what happened.
A solid hour passed, with no one at all disturbing their unprotected belongings. As a matter of fact, while at the food court they saw a number of other people also stake out tables using bags, purses, and even baby strollers, which, being wheeled, are particularly easy to run off with. Eventually, the presenter decided to retrieve his possessions, not because he was worried that someone would steal them, but because he thought the cleaning staff might think they’d been forgotten and take them to the lost-and-found.
This remarkable trustworthiness wasn’t a fluke, either. Next, the presenter and his daughter made their way to a Starbucks branch where he decided to leave even more tempting bait: his MacBook Pro.
He even placed the laptop, all by itself, on a table behind where he was seated…but 25 minutes later, it was still there, and the presenter decided to call it a wrap.
Amazing.
What's also amazing is that there seems to be a very common belief that when people move to another country, they entirely adopt the culture of that country. So, if Japanese people immigrate to a country where leaving your Macbook unattended in a coffee shop will result in it being stolen, it is expected that their theft statistics will rise to resemble that of the host country. I wonder how true this belief is.