What do Japanese people do?

Culture influeces people in many ways . Wether the culture influence one in good or bad ways, there are certain things Japanese are influenced by the culture and there are many things that only Japanaese people do but cannot be found in any other countries. Among those many things Japanese people do, making peace sign whenever one takes a picture and taking a printed sticker picture called "Purikura" are one of the examples of what Japanese people do.



First, "Peace Sign"(ピースサイン) is a typical posture of Japanese people whenever they take photos. If someone turn the camera to one's face they will never look at the camera without the "Peace Sign". This photo shows that two Japanese girls are peacing but the American guy Jake is not doing the peace sign. I guess peace sign is a habit for Japanese. There are many posture instead of peace signs common for girls when they take photos. For instance, such as there are postures which girls use their hands on their chins to make their face look smaller. Young people create a lot of posture's to make them look more beautiful and thin.

Another thing what Japanese people usually do is Purikura. Purikura(プリクラ) is a Japanese sticker picture which is available in many places such as in big malls and game centers. Whenever people hang out somewhere, people usually get into the machine and just get a piece of sticker. Some people take more than 2 times. Moreover, Purikura is popular among the people at any age. Friends, family and classmates, Purikura is one if the ways to leave memories. When I was at the age of 14, people even had a sticker book called "プリクラ帳"(purikura-cho). I don't know whether they still have this or not; however it was really common between girls.

I introduced two ways of Japanese photo taking culture of taking photos with peace sign and taking Purikura for this weeks blog.