If you visit Japan in early spring, you'll see many Japanese, regardless of age and sex, with white mask. It is slightly late for the season of flu, even getting wormer and homer.... And many women want to change the clothes from thick coat from soft shirts. Why Japanese wear a white mask though it doesn't seem fitting for spring fashion?
The answer is pollen allergy. Pollen of Japanese cedar or hinoki scatters throughout Japan in spring. The number of person who suffers from hay fever has been increasing, so otolaryngology hospitals are crowed in this season. ( Actually I saw the hospital flooded the patients, some of them couldn't enter the clinic!)
There are some foods and goods against this allergy in supermarkets and general stores. Hope cute masks, such as check, dot, and with pig nose, will replace the white ones.
March 13, 2006
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