By Amelie Marie Nishizawa Feb 1, 2020 3 min readIn Asia, wearing a surgical face mask in public is socially acceptable.
Historically, the mask culture appeared first as a common courtesy, to prevent your germs from spreading around when you’re sick.
今朝 ( けさ ) テレビでこの 画像 ( がぞう ) みて、マスクの 付 ( つ ) け 方 ( かた ) の 可能性 ( かのうせい ) 無限大 ( むげんだい ) やなと 思 ( おも ) った。 )やなと 思 ( おも ) った。= This morning, watching this image on TV, I thought ways of wearing masks are limitless.
Japan’s unprecedented mask shortageWith Japanese evacuees from Wuhan taken to hospital, people’s fear went up a notch.
In Japanese grammar, で has actually several more meanings that are kind of variations of the method an action or something is “done”.