Why do Japanese people love the peace sign? | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

Point a camera at a group of Japanese people at a graduation ceremony, a cherry blossom picnic, or any other happy occasion, and you can expect at least one – and usually more – to pose making the peace sign with their hands. Why did this gesture become so popular? Spontaneous photo pose NHK took to the streets of Osaka and asked 59 people chosen at random to pose for pictures. Forty-seven of them

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“Inoue Jun, an actor and singer with the popular band The Spiders, was a spokesperson for Konica Minolta (then Konica). He supposedly flashed a "V" sign while filming a camera commercial in the US.”

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>>Hippies and anti-war activists in the US made the gesture toward police officers. And that is the leading theory did it when the 'peace sign' started/Inoue Jun~He supposedly flashed a "V" sign while filming a camera commercial in the US./I didn't expect them to actually use it in the advertisement