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2 articles tagged #pillar-4.

• lifestyle

  Gogatsubyō — Japan's 'May sickness' isn't laziness, it's a structural crash everyone schedules into their year

  Around mid-May, Japanese people quietly tell each other they've got 'May sickness.' It's not weather. It's what happens when the country boots a new year in April and then takes a 10-day holiday a month later.

• curiosities

  Why Japanese wear masks in spring — it's not COVID, it's a forestry policy from 1954

  Japan's spring mask is not pandemic residue. It's a 38% national allergy that traces back to 1954, when the country reseeded its mountains in one species of tree.