• Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    That’s cool and all but I want to learn more about their culture of redacting abusive leaders with home made blunderbusts as I think that’s more immediately relevant to fixing the US.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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      6 hours ago

      Literally the coolest thing I read about Japan the last few years. What a legend. Makes our savior Luigi look like an amateur.

      • binux@sh.itjust.works
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        6 hours ago

        If we’re going by how good each perp was at covering their tracks, Luigi’s still on top considering he’s still on trial. Abe’s assassin was basically immediately arrested and confessed right off the bat.

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    14 hours ago

    In school, they don’t have janitors. Because all the kids do the cleaning it takes the students about 15 minutes a day in school to clean it.

    I think it’s the same in Taiwan.

    I wonder if Westerners had to clean at school if it affects us on a societal level to clean like that. Or if the larger social pressure isn’t there for people to help like that.

    My first time in Japan I was so confused as to why it was so clean yet there were hardly any garbage cans anywhere. You had to return your garbage to the vendor you bought your food from, and not stray far from them, or bring it home. There was the rare garbage can.

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      12 hours ago

      I wonder if this has something to do with size and construction, here schools are built like office buildings and frankly I wouldn’t want a child operating a linoleum floor waxer. Or do they still have somebody there who does the more rigorous cleaning?

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        11 hours ago

        The kids do all the daily cleaning, they still don’t have janitors. The school still has maintenance workers. I’m certain the large machinery would be handled by them and would be considered part of maintenance and not cleaning.

        I think you are right in that the schools are smaller, every square inch of urban area feels like 15 minute city material. So everything people need in daily life is within reach, small but numerous. I’m no expert though, just a tourist who visits his Japanese friends and asks lots of questions 😅

    • Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 hours ago

      I don’t mean it like a smart ass but any american’s that go to japan the kids do the same thing and the american’s are so shocked and everything. It has become world known that we stop reporting on it.

  • Jhex@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Maybe an actual country’s “value” that is real and worth imitating

    PS: I say “real” because we have seen this in display consistently. Most countries love to say they hold principle X or Y (always nice and honorable traits) that you NEVER see in display by their people, in their country or outside of it