Why are Japanese kids cleaning toilets?

There's a rumor going around that if you visit Japanese elementary schools right now, you may find some of the kids cleaning toilets. Not as punishment, they're doing it on their own.

I'm not sure if the rumor is true or just an urban legend, but I know what's behind it. You see, there's a song with the title "To-i-re no kamisama." Kamisama is the very polite word for a god -- you might translate it as Lord God. And To-i-re (pronounced toy-ray) is the borrowed and slightly twisted word toilet. So the song is Lord God of the Toilet -- although I think the sense of the title is more like Lord God of the Toilet Bowl.
( In the bathroom? )

In any case, that's why Japanese kids are cleaning toilets.

We'll have to wait and see whether the next generation has a lot of beautiful girls...