Wanderlust

A clean break

1 Wearing masks

rom Hello Kitty to Pokémon designs, face masks have long been part of Japanese culture. The act of covering the mouth began in the 1600s, to prevent worshippers’ bad breath from desecrating religious rituals. Face masks went mainstream during the Spanish flu in

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