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SMELL

Artificial chemical scents that come from things like perfume or fabric softener can cause discomfort or even sickness for some individuals.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 7, 2024
Scents and sensitivity: Understanding ‘smell pollution’ in Japan
In the country's crowded urban areas, it is important to be aware of how your deodorant, perfume or fabric softener can affect others.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 19, 2021
Smell in the time of COVID-19
Smell, as much of the world is discovering in the pandemic, has long been our most underrated sense.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 6, 2019
When everything in life boils down to a bad smell
An 8-year-old schoolgirl having trouble making friends thought it might be because she smelled bad. She sweated heavily. There's not much you can do about it, except wash, and wash, and wash, but the smell remains — in your own mind if not in the nostrils of your classmates — and it grows on you...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2018
Shiseido experiment finds humans produce 'stress smell' similar to onions
Japanese cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. has found that human bodies produce a distinctive odor that is similar to that of an onion or a long onion when they come under stress.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 28, 2017
Limit the damage on office battlefields
What a nest of vipers an office is! Tens, hundreds, thousands of people, supposedly united in a common enterprise — yet if looks could kill, how many would make it alive through the day?
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jul 22, 2017
How not to create a stink at the office
More domestic companies are taking the issue of unpleasant odors in the workplace seriously.

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