Japanese football fans win hearts by cleaning stadium trash during FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar
The Japanese did the same during the 2018 World Cup in Russia also. The Japan football fans were seen cleaning seats and collecting trash of the Rostov Arena stadium after the Belgium-Japan match.
QATAR: Known worldwide for maintaining the highest level of hygienically-infused lifestyle and civic sense, hundreds of Japanese football fans exhibited another fine and live example of it during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Al Bayt Stadium on Sunday in Al Khor, Qatar.
Clad in Japan’s national colours chose to stay behind after the match and picked up and collected trash, including left-out pet bottles, food wrappers and put those in the bags. Interestingly, it was a match between Group A match between Qatar and Ecuador, and Japan team was not playing in it.
The Japanese fans even picked up crumpled Qatar and Ecuador flags off the ground and held them respectfully after the opening match between the two sides.
An influencer Omar Al-Farooq from Bahrain shot the entire sequence of the event after the match and it went viral on various social media platforms winning the Japanese widespread praise world-over for their hygiene-centric approach..
The Japanese said the two flags “command respect”.
When Al-Farooq asked a Japanese what caused them to clean up, the response was: “We are Japanese, and we do not leave rubbish behind us, and we respect the place.”
Al-Farooq said: “I thought one or two people, but they were all cleaning the stadium.”
And it’s not the first time they did it.
The Japanese did the same during the 2018 World Cup in Russia also. The Japan football fans were seen cleaning seats and collecting trash of the Rostov Arena stadium after the Belgium-Japan match. Japan had lost the match to Belgium 2-3 in shootout, though.
The Japanese team even cleaned up the locker room in Russia and left a thank you note.
Wearing face mask turned up as a new normal across the world when the Covid-19 pandemic struc in 2020 in China but Japanese have been wearing face mask for over 100 years now. It was first the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 when the use of masks proved crucial in containing the virus in the absence of a vaccine. The world discontinued the use of face masks after the pandemic and used it as and when another pandemic hit.
However, Japanese made it a habit to use mask even during the normal days and carrying sanitizers in their bags while travelling is part of their mundane lifestyle.
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