JapanProbe Friends - Featured Members


Pollen allergy season begins in Japan!

February 18th, 2007 by James

This year’s winter, which has been much warmer than usual, is drawing to a close. As a result, the huge number of cedar trees the Japanese government planted and neglected in the postwar years have begun to release clouds of pollen, signaling the beginning of Japan’s dreaded hayfever season:

As the above photo shows, retailers have begun to sell a variety of pollen allergy-relief poducts and a sales war is on to decide which stores can profit the most during this season. I don’t know about all you readers out there, but I’ll definately be patronizing my local drug store a plethora of pills, masks, and tissues while I pray that somebody in the government decides to cut down all those menacing trees!



Related Posts:
 

Cute Pollen Forecaster

The hayfever season has arrived – do you have a mask?

sexy masks

Islam-Inspired Anti-Pollen Veil

Japanese Pollen Detection Balls


RSS feed

3 Comments »

Comment by V
2007-02-18 17:59:04

Yeah, cut down the damn trees, its the only solution >.>

Interesting thing someone told me about hayfever from trees in the UK at least (it wouldn’t surprise me if the tactic is used more widely); one of the reasons people suffer more now from hayfever than they used to is that in municipal locations local councils deliberately plant more male trees than female trees to avoid complaints from local residents when the fruits fall on their parked cars. The male trees produce more pollen.

Rate this comment: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

 
Comment by junya
2007-02-18 19:30:00

indiscriminate tree clearing to deal with a 20th century disease doesn’t make too much sense to me. (unless forests are a 20th century disease to you). :)

Rate this comment: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

 
Comment by James
2007-02-18 19:49:15

Actually, the forests are a 20th century disease, because they were artificially created. In many cases, already-existing natural forests that had existed for a long time were cleared so that more cedar forests could be planted.

 
Name (required)
E-mail (required - never shown publicly)
URI
Your Comment (smaller size | larger size)
You may use <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> in your comment. (Please close your HTML tags.)

If your comment isn't showing up, it's probably stuck in the spam filter or in moderation. Instead of typing the same comment over and over and sending it, contact us. Most comments are visible within a few minutes of their posting.
This site is not an open forum: we have rules. Read our discussion policy for more details.

Trackback responses to this post