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Maybe the explanation is a bit overwrought but it’s a fact that Tokyo is astonishingly clean, and I never once saw someone drop large trash in the street, even
by whiddershins 7y ago
Maybe the explanation is a bit overwrought but it’s a fact that Tokyo is astonishingly clean, and I never once saw someone drop large trash in the street, even though there aren’t bins.
That could be as simple as broken windows theory but the contrast with Brooklyn is striking.
The cultural attitude difference is real to some degree. People tend to smoke while standing in one place, a designated smoking area outside with an ashtray, not walk and smoke. This is a huge difference and reflects a priority on not annoying people around you.
That’s just one of many example I could give of what are obviously and viscerally differences in habit, custom, and perspective about consideration for strangers.
- mnky9800n 7y agoThat's because you separate your trash and put it in bins in your building
- kylorhall 7y agoThere's no bins on the street because Japanese people rarely eat, drink, smoke, etc while moving, though Starbucks/etc has changed that a little bit, but I rarely see those discarded. You just don't have any trash to drop, you'd keep it in your bag if you did, and there's bins at konbini or vending machines everywhere. Today, like most days, on the news they had more videos of Rugby tourists passed out on the street, replaying the subway video, etc. This time they had a segment about gaijin putting out cigarette butts with their shoes and walking off for like 5 minutes. Haven't seen it any worse than the Rugby World Cup.. I don't want to be around for the Olympics.
- kgwgk 7y ago> There's no bins on the street because Many were removed as a security measure after the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.