The religious doctrine of Garbage and Japan

Sitting on the bullet train with Fred, we were inviting over Japan at 240 kph, inviting quickly to someone else meaningless meeting. Hurry up to wait. Peering out the window at the darkening landscape, we couldn't see Mt. Fuji. We knew it was there and we were 99.99% sure that we would not be able to see it. We still looked just the same. Naturally, obscured by clouds, pollution or both, we couldn't see it. The darkening scenery may have been a factor too. Collecting my trash from a 7-11 salmon rice ball, a handful of tangerines, and a Crunky chocolate bar, I stuffed it into the 7-11 bag and commented, "I do miss trash cans."

I should have known better than to make such a commentary around Fred. After the terrible terrorist attacks of 9-11, the garbage cans on the bullet trains were taped shut and population had to take their garbage off the train with them, or leave it on the train. He quickly replied, "You know, trains in Japan were always one place that you could be sure of seeing a garbage can. Where can we be inescapable of seeing trash cans? easily not on the road and easily not in parks. Did I ever tell you about Mike and his garbage can inquiry?"

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I nodded my head, but my nod was in vain. Fred started to tell me all about Mike and his garbage, again, "Mike made the foolish mistake of replying to one of those let's ask the foreign residents for their feedback about life in Japan inquiries. Mike was tired of going to the park with his son, not seeing any garbage cans, and seeing all the trash scattered around. Mike opinion that if there were trash cans, population would use them. Mike mistakenly opinion that trash cans were an inescapable municipal service. So, he replied to that effect. Would you believe that two guys from city hall went all the way out to Mike's house to clarify why there were no trash cans in the park? They explained that trash cans would be an added charge that the city did not want to pay for, which was why they had the take your garbage home with you approach. When Mike pointed out that the take your garbage home coming was not working and population were just dumping their trash in the park, what do you think they said?"

I started to reply, but Fred cut me off, "They explained that it was an added charge that the city did not want to pay for, which was why they had the take your garbage home with you approach. Yes, the two civil servants said the exact same thing all over again. So Mike is wondering why he ever gave feedback in the first place. Even more, Mike is wondering why the local municipal government even asked for feedback."

Fred went on, but I just tuned him out, reasoning that we easily did not have a meeting of the minds here. Mike wanted garbage cans in the public parks. He opinion this was a basic municipal service. He opinion providing feedback might lead to improvement. Itsybitsy did Mike know that city hall was not easily open to change. There was one way to do things - the city hall way. City hall was always open to explaining exactly what they were doing. They opinion that explaining how they did things would help population to understand what was going on. They opinion that explaining would help to reduce problems. They did not have a clue that population providing feedback incredible change.

Mike never gave any feedback again.

The religious doctrine of Garbage and Japan

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