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• Shizuoka Hobby Show 2023 video impressions *LINK*
  • 21 months total, in Japan Yokosuka, Kobe and Sasebo, mostly. 99% of the "locals" wore masks. I learned their language(enough to "get by"),customs, and "culture". 360 yen to a dollar!! I asked a "Mama-san"(who ran a nightclub) why all the masks? Her answer: "Curtousy"(sp?) *NM*
    • By the way. It was 1957-1958-1959(app. 7 months each trip.across the pond.) *NM*
      • They were wearing masks way back then? *NM*
        • You betchum, Red Ryder. The Japanese winters are wet and cold, and the population is real suseptable to colds and other ailments, so I've been told, so, just about everybody wore masks. BUT, funny thing. In the bars and "clubs" nobody wore one. Only outside IIRC. Philippnes