The governments of Japan, the United States and EU decided to use "HANAGE" (鼻毛 Nostil Hair in Japanese) for the unit of pain sensation. According to the ISO, 1 Hanage is a pain when you pulled out a 1cm nostil hair with the force of 1 Newton vertically. Professor Nagai Hanagai of Muroran Medical Univeristy found two years ago by accident that there is no personal difference of pain sensation, even among genders and nationalities, when he was researching the relationship of the growth of nostil hair and air polutions. He had published his finding and indicated that it could be used for measurement of pain sensation, which had been beleived impossible.

Naturally, pain sensations differ very much person to person, and it was believed that it is difficult, if not impossible, to measure pains objectively. To a same pain stimulus, people feel it differently. Also it was very hard to compare different kind of pains universally. For example, "It was painful when I delivered my baby", "it hurts when the string was pulled out one week after my rectal hemmorhage operation". Can you tell which was more painful?

By the introduction of a pain unit, these problem will be expected to solve. This is revolutionary especially because it could be used for a better treatment of patients by measuring their pains by objective numbers. Prof. Nagai says that it will be 500 Hanage when you had a tooth pulled out, 200 Kilo Hanage when you hit your little toe on a corner of a chest of drawers, and 2 to 3 Mega Hanage when you have a delivery of a baby (in case of an esay delivery type pelvis). According to his measurements, we can conclude hitting your little toe on a corner of a chest of drawers is 1/10 less painful than a baby delivery. (Yes, Hitting your little toe on a corner of a chest of drawers is really painful!)

Medical machine manufactures and Health-rerated makers are now busy dealing with this new unit, as it happened when a new international unit such as Newton(N) and Pascal(Pa) were introducned.; e.g to change the display of the new unit on their machines.

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• (*)This was spread in Japan, a long time ago, as a chain mail. It was funny, thus I thought it should be translated. :) (I added a few parts.)
  
  Imainge if this pain is the ISO standard!

• Original in Japanese
• The Name of Prof. "Nagai" means long, thus Nagai Hanagai is a parody of "a long nostil hair".
• The Univ. Muroran Medical University does not exist, although the city "Muroran" exists in Hokkaido.

Note: This is a joke(*).