>>3818937a lot of japs are obsessed with buying "new" instead of taking care of old things.
with that said, it is mostly limited to easily replaceable things that are hard to fix, like electronics.
The bathroom in my host family's house way back in High School was super clean, so was the whole house.
I didn't go around testing to see if everything had been de-greased, but I imagine this is sort of a low class thing that the Japanese equivalent of white trash does.