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Aug 10 2009 5 Comments

Japanese workers working #16

The propensity of Japanese people to wear masks, whether it be due to the likes of hay fever or flu, is fair enough. But at the same time, the equally popular practice of putting one on, but not properly, seems utterly pointless.

Japanese festival food

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  1. Jonathan says

    8/10/2009 at 7:21 pm

    Hehe yea couldn’t agree more, but one thing I didn’t know Lee is that people wear them to prevent hay fever!

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  2. Tibul says

    8/10/2009 at 7:39 pm

    Maybe for this guy its some sort of fashion statement 🙂

    Although I think its great that a lot do wear them when cooking.

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  3. rom says

    8/10/2009 at 8:11 pm

    This guy is wearing the mask to stop dribbling on to the food his cooking

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  4. phossil says

    8/11/2009 at 2:34 am

    I think the mask is too big for this guy..

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  5. mikesblender says

    8/13/2009 at 10:04 pm

    Ha, I see this all the time, but I guess I’ve lived here so long that I don’t even think about how bizarre it is.

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