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Japan Leads In Tissue Paper Consumption

Here’s an interesting statistic – Japan leads other first world nations in annual tissue paper consumption.

Japan Leads In Tissue Paper Consumption

This graph was featured on a TV show and the program noted that Japanese people probably use tissues a lot when cleaning.

In additon, they also mentioned all the free tissues passed out with advertisements at train stations.

Source: Japan Probe

Japan Leads In Tissue Paper Consumption

Looks like Japanese really love their tissues. So how many boxes do you think you consume each year?

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7 Responses to Japan Leads In Tissue Paper Consumption

  1. Duke of Yashima says:

    I totally agree with this. My wife is part Japanese and she must go through one entire toilet roll in the bathroom in less than 2 days.

  2. Yamcha says:

    All that tissue use must come from the amount of good H-manga and eroge over there.

  3. Dee says:

    @ yamcha :ROFL! good call!

    well i heard they hand out alot of tissues on the street, like freebies uno?

  4. Crisu says:

    My guess is more of the free tissue packs than actual consumption.

    Then again, maybe tissue packs are given away as consolation prizes because they like to use them so much. Hm.

  5. DS says:

    Linked to the declining birthrate perhaps…?

  6. Alafista says:

    @ Duke of Yashima: Wow a roll in 2 days is pretty quick.

    @ Yamcha: Hehe must be. But then otakus only account for one proportion. What about the other Japanese.

    @ Dee: Yup the hand out tissues as a form of advertising.

    @ Crisu: Your guess maybe makes sense, people often use so much tissue because they are given free packs everyday.

    @ DS: Hmmm .. might have a correlation. LOL

  7. Mizunaga says:

    @Yamcha, LOL. Exactly what I was thinking XD