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Behind the Masks: For allergy season, Japan turns to surgical masks

May 2, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

TOKYO (AP) — Everybody, it seems, is wearing them. It is impossible to go anywhere in Japan this time of the year and not notice that the Japanese love surgical masks and wear them just about everywhere they go.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: 2008, Hello Kitty, Kyle Cleveland, Mickey Mouse, TV, Temple University, Tokyo, Tom Lomax, Yano Research Institute, Yoko Tamura, culture, japan, vol 28 no 19 | May 2 - May 8

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