Pick up trash with style.

Keisuke Naka and Ikki Goto are samurai who pick up trash with style in Japan. (Reuters/Issei Kato)
These samurai swing their tongs like swords. They pick up trash in a parking lot. (Reuters/Issei Kato)
This trash picker throws garbage into the basket tied to his back. (Reuters/Issei Kato)
Can you make cleaning up this fun? (Reuters/Issei Kato)

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A man twirls on the street. He spies a soda can. He swings tongs like a sword. He tosses the can into a basket tied to his back.

He is a samurai (SA-moo-rye) trash picker.

Pray: Thank God for people who make jobs like cleaning fun.

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The Gomihiroi (go-MEE-HEE-doy) Samurai (Samurai Who Pick Up Trash) walk the streets of Tokyo, Japan. They have one enemy. Garbage! Look for them wearing stylish hats and kimonos. They grab food wrappers, plastic bottles, and cigarette butts with their tongs. The samurai volunteers have served for years. They bring joy and inspire others to keep streets tidy. They make cleaning look cool. That earned them more than 800,000 social media followers!

God is the one who makes us clean. “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” (Psalm 51:7)