Tuesday, March 24, 2020

COVIDiaries Japan: A Different Kind of Story

Thirteen- year- old Takimoto Hime, of Yamanashi Prefecture, decided she needed to do something a month ago when she began seeing long lines of customers outside of drug stores hoping to snag a packet or two of masks, then in extremely short supply. In late February she began making masks with cotton and elastic, working as many as 5 hours/ day. On March 17th she visited the prefectural office, where she presented officials with the 612 masks she had made by hand. The cost: 80,000¥, all of it money she had saved over the years from traditional New Year's otoshidama from family and relatives.

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20200318/k00/00m/040/037000c

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