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Why Japanese People Make a Peace Sign for Photos

It's one of the best known aspects of Japanese culture — many Japanese people like to give a two fingered V-sign in photos. 

The Peace Sign in Japan

The peace sign began to appear in Japanese photographs in the late 1960s. At the time, the peace sign was part of the hippie movement in the United States. It was a symbol of opposition to the Vietnam War. 

Japan also had a hippie community in the late 1960s who were known to frequent theShinjuku area. The use of the peace sign in Japan began within this hippie subculture.

From Hippies to Mainstream Japanese Culture

How the peace sign made the jump from the hippie subculture to mainstream Japanese society isn't known. Urban legends link it to a popular American figure skater (Janet Lynn) or a 1972 Japanese Konika commercial. 

Whatever the spark — beginning in 1972 it was popular amongst Japanese youth to pose for photos with a peace sign. 

Peace vs Cheese

The peace sign photo pose is often compared to the tradition of saying "cheese" before a photo (in the English speaking world). 

Saying "cheese" for a photo tends to make people smile. In Japan, the peace sign has become a visual "cheese" — a cue to the photographer that you're ready for the photo. Like saying cheese — it seems to make you more photogenic somehow. 

These days, the V-sign is made at various angles of the hand (e.g. palm in or out). Such gestures aren't meant to have a meaning — it's just a photo pose. 

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Collabro win Britain's Got Talent

An operatic boy band have been crowned the winners of this year's Britain's Got Talent (BGT).

Collabro, a classical singing group, impressed the judges and the voting public with their performance of Stars from Les Miserables.
The final of the ITV talent show drew fewer viewers than in previous years, with Saturday's show averaging 10.7m viewers compared to 11.1m last year.
However, the show still drew more than half of all available viewers.
An ITV spokeswoman could not confirm one report that the final had the lowest season finale ratings ever.
She said the 51% share of total viewers in Britain at the time was on par with last season's final.
Last weekend, the show had its lowest-rated live episode ever, with an average of 7.75 million viewers.
Opera singer Lucy Kay was runner-up in the competition, which saw 11 acts vying for BGT glory - while bookies' favourite, teenage rap duo Bars and Melody, finished third.
Collabro won £250,000 and a slot performing at the Royal Variety Performance.
The group of five, Richard Hadfield and Matt Pagan, Michael Auger, Thomas Redgrave and Jamie Lambert - all in their early 20s - formed a month before their first audition for the show.
Lambert thanked the judges and the public - now dubbed "collaborators" - for their support.
"You know what I like about you guys is that you have steel in your eyes when you sing," said Simon Cowell, who - along with fellow judges Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams - gave the band a standing ovation.
"You are totally focused, you know exactly the kind of group you want to be."
He added: "This was a performance where I could tell you wanted to stamp on this competition and win the competition, and I like people who want to be winners."
Kay, whose performance was hailed by Holden as "faultless", sang Nessun Dorma, which is typically performed by a male singer.
Bars and Melody performed a self-penned, anti-bullying song which has received more than 30 million views on YouTube following their first audition.
Thirteen-year-old Leondre Devries and his friend Charlie Lenehan, 15, who wrote the track, were praised by Cowell, who said: "You are the nicest, sweetest kids I have ever met. I hope my little Eric turns out like you."

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