Comments on: Ear Cleaning Parlours In Japan

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:54:09 +0000

Very interesting article I noticed then when writing my own but missed your comment Chris on the different types of earwax. I’m not sure if that’s true, since it sounds like a typical technique Japanese ’salons’ use to make gaijin go away, it’s kind of like in the old days when gaijin were refused from hair salons on the grounds of having “a different type of hair that wouldn’t look good when cut by a Japanese barber.” Now we know that’s crap but I still get turned away from country-side Barbers with the typical ‘Gaijin Dame’.
Anyway if it’s true that’s freaky…I’ll need to look at that more.

By: thedition

thedition — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:23:20 +0000

Actually, earwax isn’t earwax. Evidently, whites tend to have oily earwax, as opposed to asians that tend to have powdery earwax. I know, I didn’t believe it either, but evidently its true.

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By: majorca

majorca — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:59:57 +0000

Surely earwax is earwax – sounds like BS

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:16:09 +0000

Hey Chris, great comment mate, thanks for the info! Glad you stopped by.

By: Chris (i-cjw.com)

Chris (i-cjw.com) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:34:05 +0000

I’m a little late to the party on this post, but I was actually refused service once at one of these places a few years ago, and on the grounds of race – but not in the way you might think. The manager very politely (and with the aid of a pamphlet he’d prepared) explained the difference between wet-type earwax (prevalent in caucasians/africans) and dry-type earwax (prevalent in asians). His concern was that, from what he had read, wet-type earwax needs to be softened before removal and he was worried that both the tools they used and the technique might run the risk of compacting the earwax into the ear canal, leading to infection.

Of course, this may simply have been BS – I’ve had no trouble in the few times I’ve been since to other places – but at least the guy was trying, and I found out something about earwax along the way that I didn’t already know (this was in the pre-Wikipedia days).

BTW, I found your blog via Japan Blogger – very interesting, I’ll be suscribing to your feed.

By: Kezia

Kezia — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:22:57 +0000

Ooops…I mean they offer interesting service

By: Kezia

Kezia — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:16:49 +0000

I never think to ask anyone help cleaning my ears … Let me be the one who see the dirt . But I must admit that they over interesting service.

By: billywest

billywest — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:19:17 +0000

It was only one place; I’m sure there’s at least one place in Akiba that wouldn’t turn foreigners away.

By: Jamaipanese

Jamaipanese — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:45:53 +0000

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