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Japan's carpet industry was hit by a 1980s dust-mite panic

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Date: c. 1980
Collection: Tuft the World research brief: The Non-English Record
Publisher: Japan Carpet Manufacturers' Association column in Interior Business News (online.ibnewsnet.com)
Themes: Global diffusion of tufting

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“Japan’s carpet industry was hit by a 1980s dust-mite panic.” Research note, Tuft the World research brief: The Non-English Record. online.ibnewsnet.com/sp/hn250526-05.html.

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No US/UK counterpart. Tufted output fell 51,345 → 35,779 thousand m² (2009→2024); tufted is ~99% of Japanese output by area. Citation check (Oct 2026, from search results; pages not opened): partly confirmed. The quote is confirmed verbatim. The source is an industry-association advocacy column ('不当な' = unjustified is the industry's own framing). NOT verified: the production figures 51,345 → 35,779 thousand m² (2009→2024) and 'tufted ≈99% by area'. The union's 'カーペット生産統計' page (carpet.or.jp/materials-library/) is the likely source. 'No US/UK counterpart' is the brief's own claim. Source: 【連載カーペットはすばらしい】“カーペット敷き” その変遷 (Series 'Carpet is wonderful': the changing history of carpet-laying) – Interior Business News, 2025-05-26. Found at: https://online.ibnewsnet.com/sp/hn250526-05.html Also: https://carpet.or.jp/materials-library/ · https://online.ibnewsnet.com/news/file_n/hn2024/hn240626-01.html