NPRより。
これによればなんと一世紀以上も前の東京。
In February 1895, an unnamed special correspondent for the Los Angeles Times wrote about this surgery in Japan.
"In their efforts to acquire recognition in the civilized world, the Japanese have found their greatest barrier in the unmistakable mark of their Mongolian origin," writes the unnamed author. "The prejudice against Mongolians is undeniable, and among the Japs, the slanted eye being its only evidence, the curse is being removed."
An American doctor named Abraham Stone was living in Japan — the city of "Tokio," to be precise — and dragging his scalpel across the eyelids of Japanese people.
しかしこのコラムを書いたのが整形大国の韓国系、取材を行ったのがベトナム系整形外科というのも興味深い。