"Green notebook" friendly to the visual hypersensitivity that spread in SNS 16:20 on October 8

"I'm looking for a green note"

Adults quickly responded to a murmur of a high school girl.

"Visual hypersensitivity" where the white color feels dazzling.

The voices of high school students who were worried spread on SNS, and the notebook bookbinding factory immediately developed a colored product. In addition, major dealers enriched the lineup of colored notebooks triggered by tweets.

Covered the connection of kindness.
(Image Center Photographer Shugo Miyata)

50,000 people spread about the troubles of high school students

On June 9th, it was the beginning of a high school student murmured at SNS.

"I don't want to use a white notebook because I'm so sensitive. The white of the notebook reflects the light and makes it harder to see the pencil lines. It ’s harder, and the better the notebook, the better the paper quality, the more beautiful white, and the eyes hurt. ”(High school tweet)

High school students who tweeted have been troubled by visual sensitivities that make white notebooks dazzling. Visual hypersensitivity is one of sensory hypersensitivity and refers to symptoms that make it difficult to see a specific color or make the light dazzle because of its high sensitivity to information coming from the eyes.

“Green Note was n’t just for people with visual sensations like me, but my sister who did n’t have symptoms said,“ Easy to use, easy to use. ” If people watch it, I would like you to make and sell a green notebook. ”(High school student tweets)

This tweet sympathized with a lot of people, and around 50,000 people spread this tweet in a few days.

About 60 years old SNS exchange

There is a president of the town factory that quickly received the serious voice of high school students.

I am Teruo Nakamura (76), who runs a notebook binding factory in Kita-ku, Tokyo.
I learned about high school students three days after tweeting through the SNS that I started with.

"Grandpa of the horizontal opening notebook. If you can help even a little, I will make it as soon as possible with horizontal opening. I would like to know the details of the paper when binding, is dark green or light green? We look forward to hearing from you, so do n’t worry, we ’re not relieved. ”

President Nakamura immediately took out a ledger with a sample of colors, took a green page, and asked the high school students through SNS which color should be better.

Then I received a reply from a high school student, and when I heard that "it is better to have a light blue color," I finished making a note the next day and delivered it to the high school student.

“If there is something like this in the world, it would be nice to throw it at SNS. Then, making things is not related to the year. I am willing to use what I made. There ’s nothing like this, ”Nakamura said.

Green notebooks made free of charge for high school students have been well received and are now commercialized and sold at bookstores and stationery stores throughout the country. As a result, new products were born and spread to people with the same problems.

Life miscellaneous goods store begins to move

The tweets from high school students also reached the SNS staff at a major household goods store, Tokyu Hands.

SNS representative Koichi Honda contacted a stationery buyer and immediately ordered a green note. On that weekend when high school students murmured, they started selling green notebooks at stores nationwide.

“Thanks to SNS, I think it is very meaningful that employees of companies like me can have a way to communicate directly with general customers, and if not, the voices of those who are in trouble like this time are directly I don't think we were able to reach us, so I think it was a very happy phenomenon. "(Mr. Honda)

Since the tweet of high school students, the household goods store has increased the number of green notebooks handled. As a result, the person in charge says that what was sold about 400 volumes per year has become a standard product that can sell nearly 2000 volumes a month.

Connect with tweets

When I asked my high school student who sent me a tweet, I sent a message like this.

“I was able to take a class just like a normal person with one green notebook. It will surely help other people to live with help and ingenuity. People who are in trouble should tell them how to live, and I hope they can help each other around "(email from high school students)

A person in need speaks and responds to someone who wants to help. Through the “Green Note”, I realized that SNS would increase the power of helping each other.

Video Center Photographer Shugo Miyata

Entered in 2011, Otsu Broadcasting Station, Kobe Broadcasting Station