The Clean Education Division delivered the outreach class Osouji-tai: Protect Your Neighborhood to three fifth-grade classes at Adachi Municipal Adachi Elementary School.
It opened with a high school member who had studied abroad describing the culture shock of how public space looked there, and reconsidering what is distinctive about Japanese public space and school buildings — and why taking cleaning seriously, as the work of protecting where you live, matters.
In the second half we demonstrated how to handle a broom and a cloth, and the children practised holding the broom down as they swept and wringing the cloth vertically. Making the dirt in their own classroom visible got them to look again at their usual cleaning time and think about improving it.
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A student organization working on civic education and teenage participation in public life, driven by the gap in who gets opportunities. Our mission: every teenager should get to meet the person they have not yet become. Around forty high school and university students from Tokyo and the three neighbouring prefectures run it. Our programs include the Mock Ward Mayoral Election — held in the ward office and the assembly chamber, taking participants from drafting policy through candidacy to the count — and Osouji-tai, which builds a sense of ownership over shared space through cleaning. More than 1,000 people have now learned how democracy feels from the inside.
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