On the extreme opposite of the US stockpiling you have mega cities like Tokyo (Seoul, HK...) where it's not common for many people to have almost empty freezers

On the extreme opposite of the US stockpiling you have mega cities like Tokyo (Seoul, HK...) where it's not common for many people to have almost empty freezers. Since you can get almost anything, at convenience store open 24/7 that you can find more than one in 500m radius. They usually have a pretty elaborate stockpiling strategy (frequent earthquake) but most of it is done at local municipal level and not individual. During covid, many municipalities had the service to drop off crates of food for people that had to isolate. Mostly because many just didn't keep much around for more than a day or two