An unscientific but still somewhat assiduous study of the bouffants boasted by most Japanese men would almost certainly suggest that baldness isn’t as big a blight on the nation’s blokes as it is back in my native Britain.
Or there again maybe, just maybe, wigs are a well used but equally well kept secret, with a rug being as readily donned as a raincoat. However, while that is very much open to debate, what isn’t is that just like the latter, wigs do wear, and this poor fella’s equally poor hairpiece,
![Japanese wig](https://www.tokyotimes.org/archives/worn_wig2.jpg)
is possibly now about as hirsute as his head.
![Japanese wig](https://www.tokyotimes.org/archives/worn_wig1.jpg)
(click images for super-sized syrup)
Desmond_P says
Thats one well defined parting!
Hachi says
Hey, maybe it’s not a wig but his actual hair and he has a battle scar there? You never know with japanese middle aged men…
Eric says
Every time, EVERY SINGLE TIME, that someone calls a toupee a “syrup” I crack up. Thanks for the laugh!
Do you read Viz?
Lee says
Glad it made you laugh Eric. I haven’t read Viz for years now, but I used to be an avid reader. In the days when it was good!
Eric says
Of course Viz is “not as funny as it used to be” ® but it still beats most anything else. They’ve stopped spotting syrups, but the profanisaurus alone is worth the cover price.