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Tokyo giving out free furoshiki from Pikachu’s designer to help tourists carry their garbage home

Summary by SoraNews24
The traditional, reusable cloth that can be converted into a bag is part of a new campaign designed to “Keep Tokyo Clean.” As we’ve covered before, public trash cans are a fairly rare sight throughout Japan. They were largely removed from public spaces following the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack as an added security precaution since they would be an easy place to conceal explosives. Instead, Japanese people are taught to bring their trash h…
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SoraNews24 broke the news in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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