From Asahi newspaper’s article.
Have you ever seen so many people who wear mask like this year?? We can found one-fourth passengers wearing mask in the train on such a fine and windy weather that have hay fever sufferer in tears.
Of course, there is “hay fever” in other countries. But, except for Asian nations, it would be rare to see the town filled with masked people in spring. Japanese man working at Washington said, “I’ve hardly seen masked people walk in town ” In America, most drug shops don’t deal with masks. I recommend my American co walker to put mask, but he said, “It looks like that I am a patient with an infectious disease”.
“I don’t wanna go to office with mask. If people have a cough or sneezing, they wouldn’t go to office in this country” Japanese man based in Germany said so. In other cities like London and Paris, there is little chance to see many people wear masks.
So, in the United States and Europe masked Japanese waking along the sidewalk become articles. American News paper said, “I thought surgical group heading for operation”. And Australian News paper said, “It seems as if they are going to get in the government's face” Both are exaggerated articles for us but its aspects are out of the usual for other countries.
According to a major sanitary goods company, HAKUJYUJI (since 1897), until Spanish influenza exercised an overwhelming influence, mask is not familiar to people. It was for factory man. At one time people put landscape type (cover only mouth) but in addition that, they put snooty type (cover mouth and nose completely) now.
These days, the American and European TV and newspaper come to report pollen-forecast and relief of symptoms of hay fever. Authorities recommend that mask keep you from hey fever, but it doesn’t still become common.
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I recently read somewhere than something like 70% of women in Japan suffer from cedar pollen allergies, and that women tend to suffer more than men. I can't remember where I read it, though. I used to feel kind of embarrassed to wear a mask, even when I caught cold. But this year, I'm suffering horribly from hay fever, so I make sure to wear a mask whenever I go out. It may look silly where I come from, but I fit right in here in Tokyo. In fact, the mask hides my big nose, so I may stand out even less than usual (ha ha).
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