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Japan has a Reassuring Door Opener to soothe coronavirus fears, so let’s try it out【Photos】
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Casey Baseel
May 19, 2020
- Japan
- (cleanliness • COK • coronavirus • gadgets • SNJO • weird)
Ingenius method of getting Japanese kids to practice hand-washing earns a stamp of approval
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Katy Kelly
Mar 20, 2020
Any parents in Japan fretting about their kids’ hand hygiene will want to buy one of these cute stamps.
- Japan
- (cleanliness • cute • family • hand washing • hygiene • kids • personal seal • Shachihata • washing)
Pretty or practical? Japanese supermarket sparks conversation about shelf stacking styles
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Katy Kelly
Jan 16, 2020
- Japan
- (aesthetics • cleanliness • online debate • seiyu • shelf stacking • supermarkets • tidyness • twitter)
The great debate: Eye-opening survey asks ‘How often do you wash your bath towel?’
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John Stuart Translations
Jun 4, 2013
According to practitioners of feng shui (Chinese geomancy that is supposed to help improve one’s life by bringing in positive energy), when you dry your body with a bath towel, you’re not just wiping away drops of water, but removing misfortune as well. So, if you use the same bath towel the following day without washing it, you’ll just be reintroducing the misfortune you had gone through the trouble of wiping away the previous day.
If that’s true, and the results of a recent survey are to be believed, then some of us are far luckier than others…
- Japan
- (cleanliness • health • hygiene • Imabari Towel • towel • washing)
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