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Regular Holidays of Beauty Salons

  • Japanese beauty salons (and barber shops) are closed every Tuesday in the Kanto region, and every Monday in the other regions.

    美容院の定休日


    Around the Second World War, Japan had faced a shortage of electricity.
    日本の美容院は、関東では火曜日、それ以外では火曜日であることが多いです。

    For this reason, Monday or Tuesday had established as Electricity Outage Day, and most electricity supplies had stopped on the day.
    第二次世界大戦前後の日本は、深刻な電力不足に陥っていました。

    On the other hand, electric perms that had been performed in beauty salons needed a lot of electricity.
    このため、月曜や火曜を電力供給をストップする休電日として定めていたようです。

    Hence, beauty salons were forced to be closed on Mondays or Tuesdays.
    一方、かつて美容院で行われていたパーマは電気パーマと呼ばれ、大量の電機を消費するものでした。

    This custom has remained until today, and there are many beauty salons that close on Mondays or Tuesdays.
    従って、美容院は月曜、もしくは火曜を定休日にせざるを得ませんでした。

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