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Bugle Boy of Company B
Fine. I’ll just throw my trash anywhere.
hooktrunk2
Trash can? What trash cans. I haven't seen any in stations for years! If Osaka has them now, I am envious.
jcapan
My wife is taking her frail mother to a play in Osaka during this spectacle and she can't even get a parking spot, despite having a handicapped sticker. No reserved parking in Umeda despite the blathering lords being way over on the coast.
Travelmaster
6 days from 24th June, convenience store trash bins in Osaka will be full every day.
garypen
JR West and Hankyu lines have plenty of trash/recycle bins.
Try and find one on the street, though, and you're SOL.
Luddite
There are litter bins in Osaka Station? I've never seen them, the only public litter bins I've seen are outside supermarkets and convinis.
kyronstavic
Ho hum. The usual security theatre to remind the plebs who's supposedly in charge.
Yet every day, fewer and fewer people are taking these crooks seriously.
John Richardson
One of the other things I just remembered that I could never understand - NO TRASH CANS!! LOL. That was the craziest thing! I would never have anywhere to throw things away. I sure as h$# never wanted to keep trash in a bag in my bag or in my pocket. You could never even find somewhere sit down on a bench and rest to eat/drink anything either.
Roger Jolly
Since when terrorist have dumped bombs into thrash bins?! I think it is only a strategy to take them out and force people not to bring around disposable things. In Tokyo there are no thrash baskets anywhere and thanks to this uncivilized habit - thanks to all the tourism pouring into the country these day - the city is turning into a pigstall! Shibuya, Shinjuku, Harajuku, Asakusa have become unbelievably dirty (not only for thrash, but really black of anthropic dirt... walking, human activity deposit).
Open Minded
I fully support Japan in the way that if you can bring stuff that might become trash, you can carry it back home. This however might be an issue at OG 2020 for people who are used to find trash bins everywhere.
Reese
Yep, I'm trying to arrange a trip to beautiful Tokyo before this mess descends on the city.
smithinjapan
Idiots! Reminds me of when they got ride of cutlery during the "Hooligan scare" of the 2002 WC. Fine. No trash bins, I'll put my trash where they should be. No recycling bins, if I can't find one I'll leave the can or bottle where there should be one. Now, if a person were a terrorist, how is not having a bin going to stop them from doing the same simply because a government is choosing to inconvenience the public because it knows no other way of policing or preventing. I say it increases chances of terrorism and/or incidents. No bins, random garbage dumps increase. A Japanese sees a bag of garbage, they put their bag there, too. The bags build up. It is a garbage dump without being called a bin. I can give you a thousand examples of this, from people using a discarded bicycle with a basket as a bin itself, to the river outside my house. This will do nothing but increase the threat, and maximize inconvenience.
JeffLee
Japanese authorities hate trash cans. they look for any excuse not to have them.
Strangerland
Because they were used in the Tokyo sarin gassings.
Derek Grebe
I was very impressed when there was another one of these taxpayer-funded jollies a couple of years ago.
Kita Senju station locked up all the bins and recycle containers (you know, the ones where you put cans in one hole and pet bottles in another, and they all land in the same bag beneath, in a beautiful display of how little the authorities care about the real problems just so long as the proles dutifully carry out their kabuki).
So without exception, each and every out-of-action bin was surrounded by a knee-high mound of empty cans and bottles. They may take our freedom, but they will never take our sneaky pre-wife One Cup Sake!
Derek Grebe
StrangerlandToday 05:43 am JST
Because they were used in the Tokyo sarin gassings.
Wrong. The terrorists boarded trains, punctured packages containing sarin, left them on the trains and got off.
JeffLee
@Strangerland
Subway trains and public restrooms were also "used" in the gassings. Let's ban them as well, eh.
Strangerland
And are you going to be the one to deal with people using the outside world as a bathroom? And are you ok with getting rid of trains?
englisc aspyrgend
Why should the taxpayer be inconvenienced just so a bunch of self opinionated elite can attend a pointless yap fest to boost their egos.
Hot Bobby
Maybe they can relocate those trash cans to other parts of Japan which are sorely in need.