After the game in which Japan beat Colombia at the world cup, footage of Japanese soccer fans collecting their own rubbish got viral in the cyber world. Many visitors to Japan often admire how clean Japan is. I don’t want to boast too much about that here as I know Japanese do litter like everybody else in the world.
However, it is true that most Japanese schools generally have had less rubbish on the floor than Australian schools I have been to.
I think it has lots to do with the fact that Japanese students are to clean their classroom by themselves every day. In high schools, toilets are cleaned by students as well, so kids do learn to use them cleanly as they don’t want to clean dirty toilets.
Maybe Australian schools should introduce a cleaning period in their curriculum?
