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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Voice of America (VOA) reports, people in countries such as China and Japan have been wearing masks for decades for many ...

people from collectivist societies such as Japan showed a greater willingness to wear masks outdoors than those from individualistic countries such as the U.S. An increased willingness to wear ...