# Japanese people giving the "peace" sign in photos

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-people-giving-the-peace-sign-in-photos/544653>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 27, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-people-giving-the-peace-sign-in-photos/544653 "2010-06-27T01:03:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-people-giving-the-peace-sign-in-photos/544653/21 "2010-06-30T14:05:51Z")

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> [@Lakai](#):
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> There is also the [sideways V](http://radiobigboy.com/images/douchebag-1.jpg). No clue where that came from.

Your link is blocked for me at work, but if it is like [this one](http://c0735522.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/justin-biebergives-a-peace-sign-at-citadium-store-in-paris.prev.jpg), then that is the peace sign I’m used to. It isn’t until this thread that I really noticed that the other peace sign, or ‘victory’ sign is totally different…even flipped the opposite way. Weird that I never noticed that till now.

ETA: And although I don’t flash that in pictures, I know lots of men do. I would only flash it as a way of greeting to someone too far away to speak to verbally.

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-people-giving-the-peace-sign-in-photos/544653/22 "2010-06-30T14:10:01Z")

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> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#):
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> Your link is blocked for me at work.

Your job just did you the biggest favor ever.

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**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-people-giving-the-peace-sign-in-photos/544653/23 "2010-06-30T20:02:37Z")

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I dont know why it is done, but this thread gives me an opportunity to note that it is the #1 pose on [www.asianposes.com](http://asianposes.com/category/pose/page/6/)

There are 28 listed poses.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-people-giving-the-peace-sign-in-photos/544653/24 "2010-07-01T02:42:21Z")

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Very common in Thailand.

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