[jernfrost]

Is not Japan similarly clean and they do it without lots of fines and cheap Labour. They do it through the upbringing and linking cleanliness to morality.

I have not been either place but maybe somebody who have can compare to cleanliness of both places?

[coldtea]

Yeah. If anything, Japan is even cleaner.

Singapore is very clean in major areas (downtown, main streets, neighborhoods, etc) but not different than e.g. London in poorer ones.

[woutr_be]

I think Japan is slightly different tho, from what I understand, they take a lot of pride in how they're presented to others. So whatever an individual does, reflects bad on the entire culture in their eyes.

Not a lot of people have this mentality.