Japan is fairly well known for being a very clean country. And overall especially in comparison to most American cities like Los Angeles , Japan is much cleaner when it comes to trash and litter and graffiti. But as many of those who have lived in Japan know, there is litter and graffiti. Below are a couple of photos from a nice little pocket park in Otawara Tochigi. I often take my boys to this little park to play but one day we found someone's lunch trash and cigarette butts on the table. Obviously an insensitive, careless and rude person. In spite of this I do feel Japan is far cleaner than where I live, Los Angeles.
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i know! not all japanese are perfect. if you go to the restroom, you will know. i think people tend to make a mess when others are not looking. hahaha
ReplyDeleteToilets at JR Stations esp the big ones shows that Japanese is about the same all any of us in other Asian countries. They make a mess there too!
ReplyDeleteMy son also found a porno magazine at this park which I had to throw away quickly before he could get a good look at it.
ReplyDeleteIt's actually a nice little pocket park though. Very small but I will post some photos of it soon.
Yep, some people do that here, the good thing is that this is not very common.
ReplyDeleteBefore we started building our house, we had to prepare our property. Oh gods, the stuff that people were throwing out there - everything from bike parts to used condoms. It was disgusting. Lately it seems that any stretch of land that looks like it belongs to nobody is flooded with trash. I've even seen broken down TVs thrown into the river.
ReplyDeleteThat's disgusting. I too have seen empty plots of land trashed like that. Someone thru the TV in the rive because they probably didn't want to deal with the crazy rules at the garbage dump facility. I went to the one in Otawara.
ReplyDeleteIt's a wonder you don't see more litter in Japan considering how few garbage bins there are around. I've always wondered about that...
ReplyDeleteMy father owns property that were supposed to be for growing vegetables but that was the story over a decade. Now his property looks like forest! I once saw a pheasant there! Trees grow over 5 meters and bunch of weeds overwhelm whole area. I cut down trees and got rid of everything that looks green. Then bunch of EVERYTHING came out, except corpse; TV, cell phone, cans, magazines, bikes, tires, blah blah blah...
ReplyDelete@expatriababy - I actually wondered the same thing on previous trips to Japan.
ReplyDelete@Y.Ikeda - I guess empty lots are the same everywhere. People will eventually use them for dumping trash. Must be a headache to clean up.