Japan fights coronavirus in luxurious style with million-yen masks


  • World
  • Wednesday, 25 Nov 2020

An employee of Cox Co, the operation company of the face-mask speciality shop Mask.com, shows off a luxury face mask made with about 330 pearls which is sellig for one million yen ($9,640), at the shop, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese trend-setters can now protect against the coronavirus in luxurious style with opulent masks adorned with diamonds and pearls for a cool million yen ($9,600) each.

Cox Co's Mask.com chain began selling the hand-made masks last week, with the aim of cheering up people and spurring sales in a fashion industry depressed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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