I discovered today that students at my middle school are not allowed to wear deodorant (with a few exceptions, I'm sure).
HOW WEIRD IS THAT!! When I was in middle school, if you didn't wear deodorant, you got made fun of. Everyone noticed. And even stranger still: the students do not smell bad. Not noticeably, anyway, and not as a whole. This only further verifies my theory that Japanese people do not sweat. Heaven help me if my current deodorant supply runs out, because they surely do not have advanced odor protection here.
On a side note, here are a couple of gems I came across when I was grading papers.
1) "Feastball" instead of "Festival"
2) "I must cream my room."
I'm sure there were more, but I lost the post-it note I wrote them down on.
Whaaat? That's so weird. Any idea why? You can definitely get good enough antiperspirants in Japan, although I did notice that deodorant is slightly less available...
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The best answers I've gotten for this are along the lines of a group mentality excuse: either everyone wears it or no one wears it. And I guess they went with the latter. They're all about solidarity over here. But I'll tell you what, there is one fifth grader in elementary school that NEEDS deodorant. At first I thought it was the teacher, then I realized I just needed to stay away from the left side of the room.
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