{"id":93,"date":"2017-05-08T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/?p=93"},"modified":"2017-05-08T22:48:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:48:49","slug":"face-mask-and-the-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/archives\/93","title":{"rendered":"Face Mask and The Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you pay a visit to Japan, you may find that so many people wear surgical masks on their faces. \u00a0For example, Casey Baseel writes an article about the bizarre sight on a website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.rocketnews24.com\/2014\/02\/21\/why-do-japanese-people-wear-surgical-masks-its-not-always-for-health-reasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why do Japanese people wear surgical masks? It\u2019s not always for health\u00a0reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And a Japanese book\u00a0<em>Mask and the Japanese<\/em>\u00a0(2012) by HORII\u00a0Mitsutoshi includes more minute\u00a0description on the topic from the sociological perspective. An English paper on the topic by the author\u00a0is also available on the web:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/11648516\/Why_Do_the_Japanese_Wear_Masks_A_short_historical_review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Do the Japanese Wear Masks? A short historical review.<\/a>\u00a0(2015)<\/p>\n<p>For most Japanese, medical explanation for effectiveness of masks is an excuse for hiding one&#8217;s face in a legitimate way. Surgical masks are just up to\u00a0the hope\u00a0to keep oneself anonymous in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Reference: \u00a0\u5800\u4e95\u5149\u4fca\u300e\u30de\u30b9\u30af\u3068\u65e5\u672c\u4eba\u300f\uff08\u79c0\u660e\u51fa\u7248\u4f1a\u30012012\u5e74\uff09<\/p>\n<p>[E0007\/170508]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you pay a visit to Japan, you may find that so many people wear surgical masks on their faces. \u00a0For example, Casey Baseel writes an article about the bizarre sight on a website:\u00a0Why do Japanese people wear surgical masks? It\u2019s not always for health\u00a0reasons. And a Japanese book\u00a0Mask and the Japanese\u00a0(2012) by HORII\u00a0Mitsutoshi includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8zvF6-1v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}