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/ 2 mat room (called yojo-han) is what the cramped rooms poor college students live in are called.
Anime Nano! 2009
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During the long Edo era the population of Japan had thought of health mostly in terms of yojo, a set of concepts imported from China sometime between the seventh and tenth centuries.
Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010
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It was the cholera epidemics, which began in 1859 and plagued the nation for the rest of the century, that were critical in breaking the hold of the yojo beliefs regarding health.
Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010
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Traditional beliefs surrounding yojo were increasingly replaced by newer ideas of eisei, which encouraged the population to think of health as something that must be actively and carefully cultivated by following scientifically approved hygienic practices.
Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010
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