{"id":20260,"date":"2011-06-29T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=20260"},"modified":"2011-06-29T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T12:00:03","slug":"sunscreen-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/29\/sunscreen-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving in Japan: A Guide to Sunscreen in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Ashley Thompson (Shizuoka-ken, 2008-2010)<\/strong> of Surviving in Japan: without much Japanese<\/a> and Lifelines columnist for The Japan Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ashley<\/a>

Ashley Thompson is "Surviving in Japan: without much Japanese"<\/p><\/div>\n

Just in time for summer (despite some of the gray days during the rainy season): an overview of sunscreen (or sunblock) in Japan.<\/p>\n

I should note that I\u2019ve heard various complaints about sunscreen tubes and bottles being relatively small here, and in many cases, this tends to be true. In my experience, women here often seem to prefer covering up their skin with clothing, hats, scarves, etc., carrying around an umbrella, and\/or just avoiding being outside during the peak times of day. It\u2019s not uncommon when stopped at an intersection to see pedestrians waiting under store eaves in the shade until the light turns green (though this is also just to get out of the heat). So I think one possible reason the quantities may be smaller is simply because they are primarily used on the face, neck, hands, and\/or arms. Their small size also makes them easier to carry around.<\/p>\n

As for men in Japan, it doesn\u2019t seem that protecting their skin from the sun is as popular as it is with women. I\u2019m sure some do, but women seem to be more concerned about this (in general, of course does not apply to everyone) and in general, sunscreen in Japan seems to be marketed more towards women.<\/p>\n

First of all, sunscreen or sunblock in Japanese is: \u65e5\u713c\u3051\u6b62\u3081 (\u3072\u3084\u3051\u3069\u3081, hiyakedome)<\/p>\n

Other words to know:<\/p>\n

\u7d2b\u5916\u7dda\u3000 \u3057\u304c\u3044\u305b\u3093\u3000 ultraviolet rays
\n\u8010\u6c34\u6027 \u3000 \u305f\u3044\u3059\u3044\u305b\u3044\u3000 water resistant
\n\u30a6\u30a9\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\u30d7\u30eb\u30fc\u30d5 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0waterproof
\n\u7121\u9999\u6599 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u3080\u3053\u3046\u308a\u3087\u3046\u3000 unscented
\n\u7121\u7740\u8272 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u3080\u3061\u3083\u304f\u3057\u3087\u304f\u3000 no coloring<\/p>\n

Understanding UVA\/UVB protection<\/p>\n

Every country has its own form of indicating a sunscreen\u2019s effectiveness against UVA and UVB rays, though the use of “SPF” is fairly standard.<\/p>\n

Japan uses SPF to measure protection against UVB rays. You\u2019ll see standard numbers such as 15, 30, 50, etc.<\/p>\n

Protection against UVA rays is indicated in Japan as \u201cPA\u201d with a plus sign (+). There are no numbered measurements for this; more pluses equals more protection. You\u2019ll find 3 versions: — CLICK HERE <\/a><\/strong>to read the rest of the post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by Ashley Thompson (Shizuoka-ken, 2008-2010) of Surviving in Japan: without much Japanese and Lifelines columnist for The Japan Times. Just in time for summer (despite some of the gray days during the rainy season): an overview of sunscreen (or sunblock) in Japan. I should note that I\u2019ve heard various complaints about sunscreen tubes and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73,7,369,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-blogs","category-japan-local","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5gM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20260"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20266,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260\/revisions\/20266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}