Girls With Mops. Only in Japan

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Girls. Plaid pleated school girl skirts. Knee socks. Mops. Yes, that last one is correct. Only in Japan do you find these wonderfully odd combinations. Apparently, it's to promote a television drama called Life. All this courtesy of Flickr user antjeverena.

by Steve Hall    Jul-25-07   Click to Comment   
Topic: Outdoor, Strange   

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One of the ways that the Japanese school system instills discipline in their students is to have the students keep the classroom clean. This is especially important because through high school graduation -- Japanese students do not change classrooms: the teachers do. So each class (not the large "class of ..." that we think of in the U.S., but each room) elects leadership and is responsible for the upkeep of the room.

Posted by: DC1974 on July 25, 2007 2:54 PM

... and thus you end up with school girls (and boys, but they don't really sell anything) with mops.

Posted by: DC11974 on July 25, 2007 2:58 PM

FYI this show deals with bullying (among other things). Which explains the mop being used as a weapon, and the disarray of the scene.

Posted by: DrWorm on July 27, 2007 12:46 AM