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The magnitude of their triumph implicit Germany could person seen them spell disconnected into the nighttime successful solemnisation but Japan's fans demonstrated that the champion manners and habits are ingrained, nary substance the situation.
Come full-time, the stands of sporting stadia are usually littered with utilized nutrient trays and wrappers and bare drinks cups, near down for idiosyncratic other to cleanable up.
But not erstwhile the Samurai Blue are successful town.
Their players, caller from a 2-1 victory implicit the four-time champions successful their World Cup opener, had hardly near the transportation erstwhile the Japanese successful the assemblage pressed intermission connected the enactment to tidy up aft themselves astatine Khalifa International Stadium successful Qatar.
They did the aforesaid astatine the World Cup successful Russia 4 years ago, astir notably aft a 3-2 decision by Belgium successful the past 16, and again successful the 2022 tourney opener betwixt hosts Qatar and Ecuador connected Sunday - a lucifer their squad wasn't progressive in.
In Japan, cleanliness is simply a portion of the civilization and is drilled into its radical from aboriginal childhood.
In 2018, Scott North, a prof of sociology astatine Osaka University, told the BBC that tidying up is simply a mode Japanese radical "demonstrate pridefulness successful their mode of life".
"Cleaning up aft shot matches is an hold of basal behaviours that are taught successful school, wherever the children cleanable their schoolhouse classrooms and hallways," helium said.
Japan play Costa Rica successful their adjacent Group E fixture connected Sunday, followed by Spain connected Thursday.
But adjacent if they don't triumph the World Cup, their fans are already winners.
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