朝日新聞社4 年
Japanese wear face masks, but the main reason is just to fit in
Japanese people have taken to wearing face masks during the pandemic, but the main reason for doing so has more to do with going along with others than preventing the coronavirus from spreading ...
朝日新聞社8 天
Japanese largely keep wearing masks on first day of ‘freedom’
Most Japanese commuters continued wearing face ... He said he was surprised to see “so many people still wearing mask and wasting a new day of freedom.” A company employee in his 50s who ...
NHK2 年
Japan eases mask guidance, but few ready for change
Japan has never had a mask mandate. The government only requested that people wear them in certain situations. Most complied without question. Early in the pandemic, experts agreed that it was ...
Surge in ‘walking pneumonia’ cases hits Japan, sparking mask warnings
People in Japan are being urged to wear masks, as doctors fight the worst epidemic of “walking pneumonia” seen for more than ...
5 years after the pandemic started, COVID-19 is still around. Masks? Not so much.
Has your COVID-era mask been a constant companion or is it collecting dust? Americans’ relationship with masking has been fraught (and politicized) since the beginning of the pandemic, a time when ...