Wash Your Hands Japan, or This Guy Will Dance Again

That video made me saddddd :(

YOU DIDN'T WASH YOUR HANDS PROPERLY. AND NOW YOU ARE SICK. D:

you should be sad.

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I know what I want to be for Halloween now.

Will you walk around with soap on your hands and dance, too?

Of course. Are you sad that you didn't think of it first?

Extra sad because I already have the coat and hat in my wardrobe!

Do you also have two little girls in your closet?

Wearing face masks is really common here in Japan but it is totally ineffective. Because:
1. They remove them all the time to eat, or talk.
2. To be effective masks should be changed 3 times a day because when they become humid, they are nice nests for virus and bacterias; some Japanese people wear the same mask over and over. Totally pointless.

I love how governments think in general. If they made more videos teaching kids to not do many different things, I'd be better off; like not following the five second rule! lol ごめんなさい mother...

I'm scared.

But not because of the flu

So all Japanese kids really are engachou, then. Just like us dirty Americans. Yes!

-1. They have a population of over 120,000,000 with over 330 people in every square kilometer which makes it packed.

I take it you haven't heard that Japan has been in full-on panic mode about the "new flu" (as they call it) for months now? Schools in Kansai closed for an entire week in May simply as a precaution, which makes me laugh because now that the flue really IS all around us, schools are open. Still, at the first sign of an infected student they will keep entire grades at home out of fear of transmission.

Yeah, they close the schools and let the kids roam around the city infecting everyone else. Why they think high school kids are going to sit around their house when they don't have school is beyond me.

Definitely have been following, but I still think it's a bit ridiculous that they're so worried. If any group of people are good at worrying a lot, it's Japan :(

My life will never be the same after watching that. It has scarred my brain.
... Now I must go wash my hands...

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Nice ideas, Koichi but very, very far from the reality.

Re: no. 2 - Kanmari's point about the constant removal of the facemasks is an excellent point, they are virtually useless.

Re: 8 - The ugly truth here is that, while children, the elderly and non-workers attend doctors extraordinarily often, their processes for staying home from work when sick actually encourage the sick to lie about their disease and not only come to work anyway but not pursue treatment at all:

There is no such thing as 'sick days' - any sick days are taken out of your annual leave

If you are diagnosed with the flu you cannot return to work until you have a certificate from your doctor stating that it has been a minimum of five days since you had a fever.

Why not just not tell your boss? No chance, since the health care system is funded mostly by your work and there are no privacy laws protecting your helath information - your work is told everything, immediately.

So, the only way to make sure you don't lose a week of your precious annual leave? Don't go to a doctor, don't get treatment and head in to work, face mask on but taken off with every word spoken :(

Re: no. 4 - Japan IS a tiny island with many, many people very close together = disease spreads quickly and even if the tourism TO the country is low (though I'd want to see figures, there) the Japanese are KEEN tourists and are constantly returning from other countries and so could bring it in themselves (which is exactly what happened: a school group returned from a trip to New Zealand with the flu in tow)

Also, I'm not sure whether your number 1 point is something you can assume without pointing out examples. I doubt Japan is worse than other countries because of different behaviours but I think you may be wearing your Japan-o-phile coloured glasses claiming this one. Sure, public toilets are definitely cleaner than in the US or Australia (except for the old-style hole in the floor ones which you can smell from miles away in even the best buildings) but there often is no soap or hand drying method in those toilets (moisture is a growth medium) so we use the little towels we carry around and then return them to our bags; people here sneeze openly; foot-sweat (more moisture) is exchanged in high traffic public areas wherever shoes are removed (often on tatami which absorbs the moisture from the feet and then we sit on it and put our hands where the feet have walked as we drink too much shouchu and lean back happily lol) and then we eat with those hands... ; people don't stay home when sick.

Of course, the reason noone should be over-hyped about the Swine flu is because it is a nastier experience but is no worse, statistically, than the standard flu.

Forget swine flu. After watching that video, I think I have brain flu.

When I saw that video, I thought, "they need to make one reminding ADULTS to wash their hands!" I admit, I had assumed Japanese would have much, much better hygiene habits than Americans. But now that I live in Japan, at least when it comes to hand washing it seems about the same. I'm thinking of all the times I've seen women leave the bathroom without washing their hands; whether I'm at work, the mall, the train station...and people sneezing into their bare hands rather than their arms...I wonder if adults do it to rebel against all the hygiene messages they got as children.

Why is he wearing a dress with clouds on it?

Why would anyone want to dance while washing their hands????

LOL at least they shouldve made it more exciting.. like the music.. mmm some electro or techno beats? hahahah and in some parts it seems like hes talkin in spanish lol

that video is weird

This is the greatest thing I have seen from Japan since Spirited Away. The director must literally have decided there was no other way to get the message across than by being jocular about it. It just pokes fun of itself! The music, hilarious onomatopoeia's, and all. Not to mention, the children really don't look happy...

Thanks Tofugu!

Eye bleach, I now need eye Bleach
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yeah... some stereotypes tend to just play themselves out, dont they

lol