Conventional wisdom says that people throw trash on the ground at a rate inversely proportional to the number of public trash cans. Japan has very few public

Conventional wisdom says that people throw trash on the ground at a rate inversely proportional to the number of public trash cans. Japan has very few public trash cans (a response to the sarin gas attacks in the 90s) yet their streets remain clean. Does the example of Japan prove the conventional wisdom wrong?