[dasloop]

Not in Japan. No armies of cleaning people are required.

[s_y_n_t_a_x]

Not true. They clean it every morning. There's trash covering the streets of Tokyo before it gets picked up.

Source: live in Shibuya for 3 months every year.

[Isamu]

There was an article recently of a new wet vacuum cleaner they were using in trains to clean the vomit left from the hard-drinking salarymen.

[jstarfish]

What? They literally keep an army of senior citizens employed on municipal crews to pick up trash and scrape gum off of surfaces.

[mistermann]

Kids clean their own schools in Japan.

https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/stor...

Whereas in the West, we just tell ourselves stories like all cultures are equal, and even though it's obviously not even remotely true, most people seem to believe it.