They don't have them because they were removed after the Tokyo Metro nerve gas attack in 1995 as a precaution against future terrorist attacks. It's a pretty common response to terror attacks, France did it after the 1995 GIA bombings and the UK did it after the 1993 Bishopgate bombing by the Provisional IRA.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Anti-public cost cutting disguised as security theater

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Dam that's a bit of an over reaction imo.

[–] Land_Strider 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, do you mean to tell me they don't have public trash bins in France or the UK either? Or did they bring them back after a while?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

They brought them back after a while. Japan has started bringing trash cans back in cities slowly too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They are afraid of bombs.

In my city center, after a terrorist attack decades ago with a bomb in one of them, all the trash bins were removed and never reinstated.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Everyone knows a bomb can only explode if it's within a trash can. I'm glad Japan no longer has to worry about this critical issue.

I all seriousness though, by all accounts I've heard Japan is very clean. The lack of trash cans is not an excuse people use and things work fine without them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Its clean but there are a lot of stinky rubbish bags on the side of the road.

[–] drunkpostdisaster 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That makes the US's reaction to domestic terrorism almost reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently we must have had a bomb thing with a bench at some point

[–] drunkpostdisaster 2 points 3 weeks ago

Don't need a terrorist attack when all you need to do is be homeless