Images of Samurai Blue fans cleaning up World Cup stadiums have garnered them widespread praise, but back in Japan, a post has gone viral complaining that Japanese men rarely deign to do so at home.
FIFA lauded Japanese fans this week on social media platform X for their “impeccable manners” that saw them tidy up the stands post-game, with pictures of men in blue avidly picking up trash.
Similar images have since proliferated online, but one X post went viral after claiming Japanese men aren’t all that they are cracked up to be.
“Japanese men spend among the least time on housework internationally,” read the post, which has been viewed 1.9 million times.
“Please do it at home,” the post said, with a satirical illustration showing a fan who proudly cleans up the stadium is, in fact, relaxing on a sofa at home, oblivious to the pile of laundry and his wife or mother doing the dishes.
