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Ketsueki-gata permeates numerous levels of Japanese society, from romance to work.

Appearing in a 1990 issue of Asahi Daily, a Japanese national newspaper, Mitsubishi Electronics

announced that a team composed entirely of AB type workers had been selected because of "their

ability to make plans." Similarly, kindergarten classrooms are sometimes divided into blood types

so that individual teaching techniques can be tailored to blood group personalities. In romance,

things become even more complex; young Japanese commonly exchange blood types upon first

meeting, thus providing a supposed valuable source of insight into the other person. Popular

Japanese women’s magazines combine blood types with the western zodiac signs, additionally

synched to four elements (air, earth, water, fire), producing "Love Biorhythm Graphs." Meshing 16

different female types with 16 different male types, a chart providing 256 fortunes for "You and

your boyfriend’s love compatibility" allows a woman to assess a mate’s inherent compatibility and

strategize accordingly.

In addition to revealing personality, explanations for ordinary illnesses can be divined through

blood types. Popular publications from drug stores and health magazines discuss self-diagnosis

through a reader’s blood type, including propensities towards certain types of medical maladies

associated with blood types. Using blood types as a means of diagnosis and treatment harkens back

to the original Chinese medical influence in Japan that lacked an emphasis on actual disease. The

Chinese historically blamed diseases on an imbalance of bodily energies and substances, thus

perpetuating the concept of ketsueki-gata by grounding it in a historic cultural context.

(Excerpted from “You are what you bleed: In Japan and other east Asian countries some believe

blood type dictates personality” by Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, February 15, 2011)

16. According to Furukawa, which of the following statements is correct?

(A) Statistically, most Japanese in 1930 had the blood type AB.

(B) There are totally 256 fortunes based on 16 different female types with 16 different male

types.

(D) The theories of Hippocrates and Aristotle are correct.

17. Which of the following statements is true?

(A) The four elements (air, earth, water, and fire) are mapped to the four blood types (A, B, O,

and AB) in popular culture in Japan.

(B) Ketsueki-gata is influential in some levels of Japanese society.

spread to Japan until 1930.

(D) In 1936, G. N. Thomson claimed that Furukawa’s arguments were correct.

18. Traditionally, the Chinese people believed that:

(A) Blood types and zodiac signs are both significant in determining personality.

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