Oshibori manufactured at the client's request. In this case, the towels are often made of a non-woven fiber. "Oshibori" is usually translated as "hot towel". Most airlines distribute hot towels to international first and business class passengers prior to the first meal on long haul flights. The heated towel used in barber's shops to moisturize the skin or beard and make it easier to shave can also be thought of as a type of oshibori. Much of this article was translated from , as retrieved on November 26, 2006. Oshibori An or hot towel in English is a wet hand towel
History of the Japanese in Houston Japanese American community in Houston had about 3,000 people, and that, as paraphrased by Minh Dam of the "Houston Chronicle", is "a relatively small number compared to other Asian-American communities in the area". A few Japanese, mostly working as laborers, were present in Houston by 1900, and due to a lack of required English knowledge some Japanese in Houston opened small restaurants that catered to working-class people and served inexpensive American meals. In the 1890s a man named Tsunekichi Okasaki, who took the American name "Tom Brown", opened a Japanese restaurant in Downtown Houston, which employed many recently arrived Japanese