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Unique Japanese Health Attitudes


Are you healthy? Many people take care of their health in the many ways, but people’s health attitudes are not all the same. These attitudes depend on a lot of elements like the national characters of people, their cultures and possibly genetic causes. Japanese people also have unique health attitudes toward their health and they are related to Japanese traditional customs, national character, history and aesthetics. This presentation discusses Japanese prevention of disease attitudes, Japanese contradictory life and death attitudes and girl’s dieting and body image in Japan. By discovering Japanese unique characteristics toward their health, people will know new ideas that are different from their own countries.

Presentation Date: December 3