Why do Japanese people sometimes say blue when it’s clearly green?

Ametora/Amekaji fitcheck. This phenomenon is part of a long dialogue between Japanese and American fashion; in fact, many of the basic items and traditions of the modern American wardrobe are alive and well today thanks to the stewardship of Japanese consumers and fashion cognoscenti, who ritualized and preserved these American styles during periods when they were out of vogue in their native land. Amekaji will never go out of vogue.

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