This Is How Japan Schools Teach Cleanliness

How do you become one of the world's most hygienic country? By teaching the value of cleanliness at an early age.

[sruthipraj]

Now this is exactly what our schools n streets in India functions like....in my wildest dreams!

[kanishksingh]

No wonder why I always love Japanese culture since childhood 😊

[abijahabigail]

Omg...they even clean the toilets....thats unbelievable!!kudos kids.... humility taught in the best way ..

[knuckleheadninja]

No government can implement such fundamental changes, we have to start doing this on our own level

[snehil.]

Govt.- "Swach Bharat"

People- Swach. Lol, wtf is that?

[kadumlego]

In Arunachal Pradesh and other Northeastern state we have to clean our class room after the class it's a compulsory.😊😊😊

[anarghyasumanth]

If a school in India did this, the media would criminalize it 😂

[vamshiabhilash]

And in my country the current gen kids are like "ewww I don't want to touch that it's gross Oh mY God your green touch coz you touched a broom stick that's so cheap and low class" and yada yada ....well don't get to see this in my country good job Japan 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[muskansiddikee]

Oh I knew this tradition before any media could show as I watched Doraemon.

[IM-epbe]

First 5 years of children is very important. They don't do what you teach them, they do what they see. In india people think that only lower class people should do cleaning.😣

[mindtraveller]

I learnt a lot about japanese culture from sinchan..I m 34 yrs but I love to see this cartoon only to learn more about japanese culture and tradition...cartoon makes you learn more...it's not meant for children only

[flowerssmile]

I really want to visit japan one day 💙 it seems like a really beautiful country and i lovvveee cleanliness so thats so good that they have descipline to remove the trash and also respect their streets and environment 👍🏻🕊❣️

[snehithauppathalla]

Team work can also be learnt through cleaning the class
Sounds good..

[gulammurtuza]

Safai hamare khoon me honi chahiye tab ja ke hoga swachh bharat

[brianchar-bow]

Why do Japanese people like cleanliness and why are even public facilities always cleaned up?　
I think it's right that the education methods of Japan people, the education of cleanliness from childhood, is thorough, and the influence of Shinto teachings such as purifying oneself and abhorring uncleanliness.
However, this is not enough to understand behavior, and it is necessary to take another step deeper and consider it.
It is necessary to clarify why Japanese people has been thoroughly educated from childhood on cleanliness and cleanliness as an important matter.
Also, why has Shinto taught about 2, 000 years ago that it is important to purify?

“Japan people's tendency to be clean-minded did not start after modernization.”



Originally, the tendency of cleanliness should be different from person to person.
But beyond that, cleanliness is emphasized in almost every Japan person's home, and they become adults educated from an early age”at school” that maintaining cleanliness is important.


Why do you think that since ancient times, only Japanese people in Asia have been nervously educated from childhood to make cleanliness a matter of importance?


I write a hypothesis.

First of all, the formation of culture is greatly influenced not only by “genetic factors” but also by “the natural environmental conditions” in which we live on a daily basis.
Compared to other countries in the same Asia, this tendency is not seen in people living in countries of continental descent, and there is a remarkable consideration for cleanliness in the actions of only Japan people. It is not a common trend among all Asians.
This can be understood by traveling around Asia and comparing the behavior with people in other countries.
I think this difference is "not a coincidence".It occurs in the difference between living on a “continent” and living in “an island” country



To put it simply, the country, climate, and natural environment of Japan have had a great influence on Japan people as the cause of their behavioral habits.
In other words, "maintaining cleanliness" was an important factor that was indispensable for the Japan to live healthily in the natural environment, to leave offspring, and for the species to survive.
The special "environmental factors" of the Japan land have produced 'strict behavior in cleanliness', and it has been established as a culture over a long history."
I think that maintaining cleanliness has been an age-old wisdom for Japan people to 'survive safely' in the climate of Japan.



The climate of the island country with temperate ~ subtropical rain and humid humid sea are completely different from the living environment of the continent country（dry climate） even in the same Asia.
This is because it is a rich environment blessed with food, clothing, and no shortage of drinking water, foods, animals and plants, but at the same time it is also a favorable living environment for many bacteria and many kinds of mold spores, and a warm and moisture-rich environment also has the downside of activating the production of many kinds of bacteria and insects that are fast and toxic due to the progress of corrosion.

There are two opposing sides ; light and shadow, Heaven and Hell to Live.


The natural environment of Japan is 'rich and blessed' to live, but on the other hand, it is also a very "dangerous natural environment" where bacteria and rot easily occur and multiply.
If you are not always careful, food will rot and become toxic easily.　


This 'dangerous natural environment' has been the cause of the fact that cleanliness has been inherited as an indispensable and important factor in the daily life behavior of Japan people.　　
Cleanliness is an essential and important factor in living 'safely' in a Japan's 'dangerous' environment.　
It is because of the history of the education of cleanliness is thorough.



Japan has experienced many disasters throughout its long history, such as sudden epidemics of plague at any time.
In the past, when medicine and science were not as developed as today, it is easy to imagine how horrific a plague caused by bacteria that could deprive people of their peaceful daily lives in an instant by invisible forces would be a terrible.　
In this background, the teachings of religions, including Shinto, have also developed.
Shinto's "exorcism" rituals to purify the body and the teachings that it is important to maintain cleanliness have been formed.


The mild climate and abundant water allowed to grow trees and provide a boon to human food, at the same time making a livable paradise for life-threatening bacteria and molds.

The reason why Japan people have a culture that insisted more strictly on cleanliness than other people living on the continent was because it was “an adaptation behavior” to the special damp climate and “natural environment of an island nation” different from the continent,
and it was "necessary wisdom" for people “to live safely “in this island.



Overlooking this environmental factor, it is impossible to tell the reason why Japan people like cleanliness.
Everything has a cause and an effect.

[prashikmeshram]

When you clean thing..You purify your heart.
What a line ❤️

[Jhamie]

Schools in Japan:cleaning together after class
My school: after class leaving me alone to clean the whole classroom 😅

[shinobi]

the day we put this in the Indian school system...😂😆

[gravity]

We indians look down upon the work of cleaning as if its the job of the uneducated people or socioeconomically backward people and municipal workers. And educated peoples job is to litter. And when the western media shows that we get offended, and say that why do western media ONLY shows that, but we never think that why should they get a chance to show that. Poverty is an excuse which we give. There are a lot of poor places around the world but they are not as dirty as ours. Its within our culture. We massively lack civic sense as a population. People throws trash on the road out of their car windows while driving in a car. Will we guys call them poor or uneducated, which one?

[aishwarya]

In India, old times some schools used to clean but nowadays nobody is cleaning in schools. 😒