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After years of wearing masks against Covid, students in Japan have been undergoing ‘smile education’ to relearn their social cues, Mail online reports

According to Mail Online, Keiko Kawano’s company, Egaoiku, has seen a more than four-fold jump in demand for smile instruction since last year.

A one-hour-long session costs 7,700 yen (N43,000), and customers range from companies investing in salespeople to local governments ing residents’ well-being.

One of the students taking the class as part of her school’s courses to prepare them for the job market, Himawari Yoshida, 20, said she needed to work on her smile.

I hadn’t used my facial muscles much during COVID so it’s good exercise,’ she said. Before the pandemic, wearing a mask in Japan was normal for many during hay fever season and around exams due to concern about getting ill for a key life event. A poll by public broadcaster NHK in May showed 55% of Japanese saying they were wearing them just as often as two months earlier. Only 8% said they had stopped wearing masks altogether.

Roughly a quarter of the art school students who took the smiling class on May 30 kept their masks on during the lesson. Kawano said that young people have, perhaps, become used to life with masks. She noted that women might find it easier to go out without makeup and men could hide that they had not shaved.

The former radio host who started giving lessons in 2017 has also trained 23 others as smiling coaches to spread the virtues and technique of crafting the perfect smile around Japan.

Her trademarked ‘Hollywood Style Smiling Technique’ method comprises ‘crescent eyes’, ’round cheeks’ and shaping the edges of the mouth to bare eight pearly whites in the upper row.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12159023/Japanese-trained-Hollywood-smiles-masks-slowly-come-off.html
https://www.lagospostng.com/japanese-students-pay-n43000-an-hour-for-smiling-lessons/

Nice business concept...

b4 now madness was personal but now its national, smiling lessons kwa!

Damnnn niggar

Very funny

But I was told that Japanese men are like weaklings

That you hardly find them around women
As if their fertile rod is not working

The new Ebonyi governor Nwufuru should go and undertake the smiling course

such is life

we are using our hard earned cash here to make Nigerian bannies smile

Just ed my physics teacher then who always threatened us with laughing gas in the lab.

Very funny moment old time

Oyibo people sabi do strange things eeh

Lol the story sef dey funny will be charged like this.....


When derr is Alot of people online displaying dere mumu for free all u just need is Data u go get the laff unlimited....



Well the case no different from people we dey go take Table for 2 fr Comedy show for 10m....

Smiling@ no cost.

This is Interestingly Interesting 😃 😀 😄 😁

Smiles wey we dey smile for free for area on an hourly basis 😃 😀 😄

These ones no get problem

I can teach them for just 2k per hour

Buhari should take the lesson. After empty the treasury, left the coming istration with gigantic liabilities. He will be smiling now. Obi want to cumef and exfuose me.

Na person one month full salary dem dey use smile for hour so

Anything na hammering

They will make a lot of money here

The Japanese? Very weird but nice people.

Dem no know wetin to do with money.

wow interesting, its time to go to japanese just be smilling around u might get employed for the job

onajo2000:
Anything na hammering

I am telling you seriously

I love my country, we don't waste money on nonsense things.

Things that are natural.

Their own better

These kinda ideas won't fly in Africa..

Only in Japan

Uglybwoi:
These ones no get problem

Exactly

Pay to smile kwa, what happened to the phrase happiness is free?

On Fiverr I have a client that paid me $10 daily for a month engaging him with how to smile contents....the world is ever evolving and these times as I tell young persons that are open to know is the best time to earn via online as you can be creative enough!


Wittyness

Hmmmmmm, the story funny me and I dey smile already.
Who I go pay now