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a report question uncovered restrictions say about be doing 0 corporate policy. ah, i british minded, you're welcome to did up the news asia, glad you could join us. japanese fans at 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 meet this summer i blues, japan's army of noisy fans lighting up this world cup. 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 don't 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. on own home is the japanese people. these are just normal things to do using and what they will see speaking myself, see dishing when i was younger. when i was a student extend and when i was working for companies in 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 though to with the muscle in hearing appeal of the world will always be the football and the shot at glory. marked as japan's passionate fans have shown, it can provide a platform for elation on common courtesy. and gentlemen, out for more insights of this is scott north. he's a sociologist at or soccer university in japan. professor nov. help us understand this. why do japanese fans say cleaning up after the 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, or japanese who are part of the,

or the supporters group in doha view, cleaning up as a, 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 her? i've read that this is a part of that culture. 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 settings. 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 virtuous. i don't think it's a kind of virtue signaling 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 that is a different though, isn't that professor between, i don't know, cleaning up where you want all, where you study and cleaning up a public stadium. i mean, just the difference in size a known 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. um 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. um, 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 to japanese friends at stadiums. i mean, what would you call that? right? yeah, i mean, since this phenomenon i was 1st noticed a few years ago during the, the russian world cup. and 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 and don, are supporters groups,

and 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 as planned activity, this isn't spontaneous in that way. and 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 a speaking of those at bottom rather than to find themselves in. i'm curious how to japanese tourists cool 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. dan tish, pat little small packages of tissues, so 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 are 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 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 the when to repeat a question please. a question from reuters given the

widespread display of frustration with the 0 coping 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? doubles the clip and he had to provide some context of the devil report to clifford coon. and clifford welcome that sort of fumbling doesn't happen very often when it comes to serious controversial issues. what do we make of that?

when it's, it's remarkable and 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 or 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 he and they know this question is coming because it's, it's news. it's obviously not on the main use in china thought 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 it's very difficult 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 certainly initially didn't say anything at all. there were almost rabbits in the headlights,

at the responses that people had gotten used to. the fact of that would be no public protests. speaking of, for the government's response, which came looking later on tuesday evening, the communist party serves it below, crackdown 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, you know, 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 maybe waiting it out. there is a lot of come apart. you often just wait things out and, and at this stage they're, they're kind of drawing a line. we seen things piece, right? a little bit over the last couple of days to they certainly less intense than they were before. and so i think at this stage the decision has been made that is over. and how that plays out. of course we, we, i'm, we will still have to see over the next few days. do you think she didn't bring it in a circle and maybe worrying about these protests of the obscene? i think i think they have to be, am i,

i think there's no way i think the scale of them the fact that how, how much they've been going around social media am and how much it goes against the image that she didn't ping has of how china functions day to day. that's going to be the big question, the dichotomy dot 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, an update from the region on our website did over dot com, forward slash asia. we're back again tomorrow at the same time to then the but i did, i did get an early opposing caught shouted break the legs. are that damn, do you buy the car? we use a jewish sports club in germany, discrimination and attacks on the right here to the club stands up to them with

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