Styling tips from fifth-generation owner of a business that began before samurai were allowed to cut their top-knots.
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- Japan
- (barber • barber shop • COK • hair • haircuts • hairstyles • history • Masanuki Sunakoma • personal grooming • retro • review • SNJO • tradition)
We got a haircut at “Japan’s Leading Barber” and walked away feeling like a million bucks
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Koh Ruide
Jul 1, 2019
- Japan
- (appearance • barber • confidence • hair • haircut • job hunting • Jotaro Takigawa • massage • shinjuku)
Let that be a lesson to anyone who dares play a CD in a place where it might be overheard by someone else.
Pepper the robot suggests what haircut is best for you at Japanese barber shops【Video】
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Scott Wilson
Jun 18, 2016
Japanese government recognizes equal salon rights, men now “permitted” to get haircuts in them
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Master Blaster
Jul 21, 2015
A huge victory in the metrosexual rights movement was made last week when the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare decided to abolish a guideline which stated that “men should not be able to get haircuts at beauty salons.”
Everyone has that one celebrity that we have been told we sort of look like if we squint our eyes and look into a foggy mirror. For our beloved RocketNews24 reporter Mr. Sato, that celebrity doppelganger is none other than former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. As a frequent participant at iPhone launches and Apple’s annual “luckybag” sale in Japan, Mr. Sato decided maybe it was time to see if a shorter haircut (and a black turtleneck) would indeed make him look like the tech icon. Armed with an iPad and a digital photo of Steve Jobs, Mr. Sato began his iMakeover.
- Japan
- (Apple • barber • Doppelganger • funny • haircut • Mr. Sato • Steve Jobs)
Chinese city questions $32,000 budget for cops getting three haircuts a month
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Scott R Dixon
Sep 22, 2014
How many times a month does a police officer need to get their hair cut? That is the debate going on in the southern Chinese city of Shenzen after authorities found out that local cops there had budgeted nearly two million RMB (US$32,000) over a two-year period to have each of its more than 2,000 police officers have three haircuts a month.
While city authorities are questioning the necessity of the cops’ excessive visits to the barber, local citizens are outraged and are demanding a more “reasonable” haircut budget from their police force.
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