Hair Loss and Wigs in Japan

[Hokgwai]

and what's the deal with that creepy "Propecia" thing....

egad man, it's hair on Scotch tape.....eechh....

[Mulboyne]

Nido Re-Hair Course

[Mulboyne]

http://planetj.web.infoseek.co.jp/zura/index.html

A TV wig "happening"

The same video has popped up on Spiked Humor.

[Mulboyne]

[otakuden]

Weirder things have happened. Like the artist who genetically modified a cactus to grow human hair instead of spines.

fucked. up.

[otakuden]

Fully shaved head for the past 5 years and lovin it!
The only semblance of hair on my head is the little tuft under my lips. Otherwise known as a "soul-patch."

There's nothing like a good ole head massage...

i've been buzzing my hair for around 7 years now. for the first couple years i buzzed it down to the scalp, sigourney weaver Alien 3 style ~mreow~ now i keep a bit of fuzz, level 2 all the way. i could never go back to anything resembling longer hair. love it!
comb-overs, implants, blech. if ur losing ur hair, then let it go. work with it. make it sexy. now that is hawt, imo.

[otakuden]

http://planetj.web.infoseek.co.jp/zura/index.html

A TV wig "happening"

rotflol!! for both of them.

[dimwit]

Shopping at the same store as Aneha I see.

[Greji]

i could never go back to anything resembling longer hair. love it!

I have been working with short haired beavers for fun and profit for sometime now. These are also quite attracting to addictive!

[homesweethome]

Hey GB I have always been meaning to ask you. I see from your picture that you have a great one. My compliments.

I am getting a little thin on top myself. Can I ask how much you had to cough up for one of your quality? Is it real hair? Did you get a custom job or mail-order it from abroad?

[Greji]

Hey GB I have always been meaning to ask you. I see from your picture that you have a great one. My compliments.

I am getting a little thin on top myself. Can I ask how much you had to cough up for one of your quality? Is it real hair? Did you get a custom job or mail-order it from abroad?

Areransu! Eat your heart out!

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]Reuters

A participant gestures in front of a picture of his hair before a hair restoration treatment at the Hair Restore Japan Contest in Tokyo April 9, 2007. About 470 applicants took part in the contest to select the best result of a hair restoration treatment, with 3 million yen awarded to the winner.

[Mulboyne]

[amdg]

I was in Tokyo Hands today getting some shaving cream, and in the next aisle I noticed that they had a new glass case full of fake beards and moustaches. These were not costume, fake as items, but very high quality real hair (or so it looked). They started at around 3000 yen, for a moustache and topped out at around 8000 yen for a goatee.

[Mulboyne]

"No wigs allowed" on the spinning coaster.

[Mike Oxlong]

I know an old guy who wears a toupee. Guy's salt-of-the-earth, but in all honesty the rug looks like a coonskin cap!

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: Balding man settles suit for 4.3 million yen

A balding man successfully sued a leading hair-restorer company for failing to stimulate hair growth in four years of treatments, sources disclosed Tuesday. The company agreed to pay him 4.3 million yen through a court-mediated settlement. Mohatsu Clinic Reve-21, based in Osaka's Chuo Ward, settled the case with the 58-year-old plaintiff in Osaka Prefecture last September, the sources said. Mohatsu means hair in Japanese. In the lawsuit filed at the Osaka District Court, the man sought 8.6 million yen to recover the costs of his treatments and as compensation. The settlement of 4.3 million yen equals about 90 percent of the service fees paid by the plaintiff.

According to the plaintiff, in April 2001 he consulted the company about his thinning hair. After an employee assured him that his hair would grow back after about three years of treatments, he signed a contract. The two-hour weekly treatments involved use of a patented high-frequency wave device. He continued the visits until May 2005. In total, he paid about 4.9 million yen for treatments, plus 1.9 million yen to buy food supplements from the company.

In the lawsuit, the plaintiff claimed the four years of treatments had little effect on his baldness. He grew only a limited amount of fuzz. He argued that the contract should be nullified because the company's pledge that "hair would definitely grow" violated the law. Under the consumer contract law, a contract can be nullified if a client is induced to sign it through aggressive or misleading sales practices, which in this case would be guaranteeing the effects of hair treatments.

Mohatsu Clinic Reve-21 denied its employee had promised full hair regrowth and said it had informed the plaintiff in advance that its treatments would affect individuals differently. A company official told The Asahi Shimbun the company stands by its treatments, but had agreed to settle the suit because the plaintiff was dissatisfied.

[kurohinge1]

[SIZE="4"]Japanese Wig Maker Propia Goes Bust[/SIZE]

Tokyo, July 9, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Japanese wig maker Propia Co. has filed for court protection from creditors under the Civil Rehabilitation Law, credit research firm Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Wednesday.

Propia left liabilities totaling 4,375 million yen as of the end of March 2008,

Established in 1984, the company started as a consultancy for eyesight improvement. It then entered the wig manufacturing business.

The company grew rapidly after it developed its signature "Hair Contact" wig product featuring a thin, transparent and permeable membrane that attaches to the scalp.

But Propia spent heavily on advertising, including television commercials using celebrities, as well as on research and development. It also set up some 30 consumer service centers to promote sales.

Although the company racked up sales of 4,305 million yen in the year to March 2007, it incurred a net loss of 693 million yen, hit hard by the expenses as well as product recalls.

Propia posted net losses for four straight years through March 2008. At the end of last March, the company had excess liabilities.

[Mulboyne]

Mid-term business results are in for two of Japan's largest suppliers of wigs. Art Nature saw profits fall 72% while Aderans registered a mid-term loss. One article (Japanese) points out that the weak economy is mostly to blame. Wigs are high-priced items, usually costing between 400,000 yen and 700,000 yen, which is quite a sum to find in an era of low pay and bonus cuts. A wig will also usually only last for around 5 years so some cash-strapped users are either trying to make do for longer or else have ditched the hairpiece. The article notes that an ageing population works against the wig companies as men in their fifties and sixties no longer see a need to cover-up compared with those in their thirties and forties. Corporate lay-offs and compulsory retirement programmes not only put a pinch on the household budget, they take away the need for men to keep up appearances in front of those who have always known them. The decline in the birth rate has also reduced the ranks of young men looking to counter a receding hairline. The wig companies are trying to expand the market for cheaper women's hairpieces and those for the elderly but the article wonders whether this will be enough.

[Mock Cockpit]

In other news the merkin business is making record profits.

[Mulboyne]

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New Aderans campaign asks "Can you guess who is wearing a wig?"

[Mulboyne]

Aderans Holdings has announced it will be changing its company name to Unihair (Japanese PDF). Unihair is short for "Universal Hair". They will keep be the Aderans and Fontaine (women's wigs) brand names.

[IkemenTommy]

Aderans Holdings has announced it will be changing its company name to Unihair (Japanese PDF). Unihair is short for "Universal Hair". They will keep be the Aderans and Fontaine (women's wigs) brand names.

Uni..? Not the most brilliant guys working on the naming

[Doctor Stop]

Unihair is short for "Universal Hair".

One would think that "One Hair" would better describe their customers.

[dazz_in_japan]

DAMN, guess i cant ride that baby then!!!

[Mulboyne]

Aderans Holdings has announced it will be changing its company name to Unihair (Japanese PDF). Unihair is short for "Universal Hair". They will keep the Aderans and Fontaine (women's wigs) brand names.

Well, they are now dropping Unihair and going back to Aderans.