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Japanese Teenage Culture

Place	:	Kyoto
Taken by	:	M. T. (Doshisha International Junior/Senior High School)

As one of the Japanese teenage culture, many of Japanese teenage girls like to decorate their personal belongings they use at school by themselves.

This is a decorated notebook.
You may use stickers you get when you buy clothes at a brand-name clothes shop.
Some stationary shops sell notebooks which has no pictures painted on the cover, because it will be easier for the customers to decorate the notebook by themselves.

This is a decorated mirror.
Usually, mirrors with no pictures on its cover are used to be decorated.
Teenage girls like to write their favorite phrases or lyrics on it.
Sometimes they get their friends to write some message for them too.

This is a decorated cell phone.
Almost all of the girls decorate their phones by sticking jewel stones, stickers, and sometimes even by writing on it.

The materials you need to decorate your items can be bought in 100 yen shops, which sell all of the items in the shop for 100 yen (about one U.S. dollar). The less cost you take to decorate your belongings, the better you are at decorating.

Child Research Net would like to thank the Doshisha International Junior/Senior High School and Miki Takamura, student and author, for permitting reproduction of this article on the CRN web site.