• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    5 months ago

    In Japan I had no idea how to get rid of rubbish. The only way I knew how was to find the Mc Donald’s and throw our trash away there.

    I don’t know why they don’t have public bins.

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      They don’t have them because they were removed after the Tokyo Metro nerve gas attack in 1995 as a precaution against future terrorist attacks. It’s a pretty common response to terror attacks, France did it after the 1995 GIA bombings and the UK did it after the 1993 Bishopgate bombing by the Provisional IRA.

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      They are afraid of bombs.

      In my city center, after a terrorist attack decades ago with a bomb in one of them, all the trash bins were removed and never reinstated.

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        Everyone knows a bomb can only explode if it’s within a trash can. I’m glad Japan no longer has to worry about this critical issue.

        I all seriousness though, by all accounts I’ve heard Japan is very clean. The lack of trash cans is not an excuse people use and things work fine without them.

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          Its clean but there are a lot of stinky rubbish bags on the side of the road.