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a report as question uncovered restrictions. say it's about beijing 0 corporate policy. ah, i british man, you're welcome to did up the news asia glad you could join us. japanese fans of the football woke up in author are inspiring new standards of public behavior. again, videos and images have emerged of them cleaning up in the stands after football games. even when their team isn't playing. this isn't the 1st football woke up, or japanese fans have put others to shame with these actions for the japanese though, this is just the normal thing to do. i mean, this summer i blues japan's army of noisy fans lighting up this world comp armed with drums and flags and garbage bags. while some supporters talk

trash, these die hard to prefer to pick it up. oh, really good to go. our main goal is to fill the stadium of the blue color by using blue plastic bags. and since we have garbage bags anyway, let's just clean up the garbage on the way home. that's how we think. we're not here to clean up garbage. we're here to support our teen. none. the less videos like this one posted by fifa have gone viral fans tidying up. the stands when lose or draw in. it's not just the fans. the players to have been praised for leaving their changing room spotless. but the coach insists it's nothing special or no news for japanese people. these are just normal things to do. you from what they will see speaking myself citizen, when i was younger, when i was a student excel and when i was working for companies, the stem,

we have that kind of education. we don't look at that when you leave, you have to leave it cleaner than it was before it took with the most thought enduring appeal of the world will always be the football and the shot at glory. but as japan's passionate fans have shown, it can provide a platform for a lesson on common courtesy. and gentlemen are for more insights on this is scott north. he's a sociologist at or soccer university in japan present of help us understand this. why do japanese fans say cleaning up after game is the normal thing to do it? because it is the normal thing to do. i'm cleaning up after any kind of group activity is part of the activity. japanese who are part of the, the,

the supporters group in doha view, cleaning up as it's part. it's their role. it's one of the ways in which they participate in the support of their team. but where does this come from? huh. i've read that this is a bought that. gotcha. how is this a part of that culture? why is this the normal thing to do it in the literature on japanese social life gives us many examples of people being taught to clean things. children clean their own schools, for example, workers always set aside a bit of time at the end of the day to clean the workplace. people clean their neighborhoods together in a very organized sort of way, a couple times a year. so there are many occasions in japanese life where it's considered to be the natural thing to do,

and it's not necessarily done for praise. i don't think the fans in doha are doing this because they want to be seen as young virtuous. i don't think it's a kind of virtue signaling on, but it's, it's the natural thing to do after you've used a facility to clean it up so that the next people who use it will not be inconvenienced in any way. but if that is a difference, there isn't that profess i between, i don't know cleaning up where you walk or where you study and cleaning up a public stadium. i mean, just the difference in size unknown is a huge difference is a back i agree. and, and the japanese are perhaps a bit extraordinary in this regard. but in order to know how extraordinary they actually are, we would need to do some sort of cross cultural study. and i don't think anybody

has done that yet. so there's, there's nothing wrong with the habits that they have an end of this, their sense of, you know, when they're, they're watching a game and they have taken over the stadium and made it there for a short time. and i think cleaning it up afterwards follows rather naturally for them. i mean, i, i have to ask you, profess, i'm and how much of this is also potentially manufactured for brand japan. i mean, the reason i ask is because you have the japanese football association have been out blue, trash bags, the japanese fans at stadiums. i mean, what would you call that? right? oh yeah, i mean, since this phenomenon was 1st noticed a few years ago during the, the russian world cup it, i've received a number of calls from people asking me, what's going on here. part of it is the culture of japanese, so called o n don, are supporters groups because they have leaders and the,

the people who are leading these groups will be the ones who are making the plans and bringing the bag. so it's, it's certainly is a planned activity. this isn't spontaneous in that way. and then the, it, as you say, the japanese soccer association is handing out plastic bags to people to japanese people to clean the stadium afterwards. so it could be that there they're jumping on the sa media driven bandwagon. and, but i think the original impulse in moscow 4 years ago was it was a very sincere one. it's just a natural outgrowth of the way that japanese tend to take care of the environments that they find themselves in. if they don't wish it was the speaking of the think bottom, professor, other to find themselves in. i'm curious how to japanese tourists scope when they travel to other countries, where cleanliness standards aren't as high as that. i mean,

i'll be inwardly eating to clean up where they're visiting. i don't think they're inwardly itching to clean up, but they generally will carry like hand sanitizer and handkerchiefs. and, and tish pat little small packages of tissues so that they come prepared to keep themselves clean if not the environment. one last question, professor, the football cleanups increasing and got that. does that happen in japan as well? i mean is that those the scenes we seen off the japanese football games at home? yes. generally. and baseball as well. um the high school baseball tournament that takes place here in osaka, every year. features fans who clean up after the games have ended because there is going to be another game immediately afterwards. and they would like to leave the place a little bit cleaner than they found it. certainly an example to all of us. professor scott, my pleasure talking to thank you so much for joining us. ah.

the chinese communist party has announced it will crack down against hostile forces, days off to nationwide antique cove. it protests rocked china and go over the 0 covert policy bust onto the streets over the weekend. taking beijing by surprise, that was evident at a foreign ministry press conference on tuesday when the spokesperson was posed a simple question by a journalist. given the widespread display of anger and frustration at the 0 covey policy in recent days across china. is china thinking about ending it and it's so way. thank you. when i'm the one to repeat a question please. a question from reuters given the

widespread display of frustration with the 0 coding policy, is china considering ending it soon? and if so, when you know the, what you mentioned, you does not reflect what actually happened. right? that was the clip and he had to provide some context deductible to clifford coon am 5th welcome. that sort of fumbling doesn't happen very often when it comes to serious controversial issues. what do we make of that?

well, it's, it's remarkable. ah, it's, it's sam, almost unprecedented. the press conference, the briefing from the foreign ministry is, is very much a formulaic affair where people go along and they, and they ask their questions and statements are read out. they're not answers per se, their statements. and they're prepared in advance because they know the topics of the day. am this clearly? yeah, they know this question is coming because it's, it's news. it's obviously not on the main use in china. it's all on the, on the m, on the main media, but it is all over social media, so they know it's coming am and then so is it very difficult to explain why the reaction is so slow and so considered and so are not considered there doesn't seem to have been preparation or in some ways it's kind of almost emblematic of the government's response because for days these things have been going on and the government hasn't really said anything in certain initially didn't say anything at all. they were almost rabbits in the headlights,

at the response as if people had gotten used to the fact that there would be no public protests. speaking of for the government's response, which came looking later on tuesday evening, the communist party says it below crack down on hostile forces. does that mean that these antique covered protests are effectively over? i think certainly as far as the, as the party is concerned, they're over, it's the use big words and carry a big stick. i think we're going to see this, this stick being wielded. now it depends how severe that will be. am but in some ways just may be waiting it out. there is a lot of commas, party off, just wait things out. and, and at this stage they're, they're kind of drawing a line. we seen at things piece right? a little bit over the last couple days. to they certainly less intense than they were before. and so i think at this stage the decision has been made that it's over . and how that plays out. of course we will. we will still have to see over the next few days. do you think she didn't bring it in a circle? will we be worrying about these protests of the scene? i think i think they have to be. i think there's no way. i think the scale of them

the fact that how much they've been going around social media and how much it goes against the image that she didn't pay has, or how china functions day to day. that's going to be the big question that dichotomy that division between what he sees as china and what clearly the protesters see clifford reliever there for the timing. but thanks so much for coming in on that and that's about it for today is of course more news and updates from the region on our website. deborah dot com, forward slash asia. we're back again tomorrow at the same time. see that the but sometimes to be josh out at you, our tv highlights for sure. we book it every week. not the mob will you become a criminal? mm franklin, i already know. who's with

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health. this is the w business. i'm janelle dumas on welcome. he wrote zone inflation has declined for the 1st time in 17 months. it fell to 10 percent this month from 10.6 percent in october. according to the latest official figures, inflation has weighed on the 19 countries currency block made high energy prices triggered by russia's war and ukraine. despite the appearance of a recent slow down in price rises, european central bank president christine la guard, warned earlier this week that euro's own inflation has not yet peaked. carson's asked is a chief economist at i n g d, but thank you so much for being here. carson, do you agree with regard with regard to inflation not quite peaking yet, or she merely managing expectations? well, i think she synergy expectations and.