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Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
Djevičanstvo u Japanu postaje državni problem
JAPANCI imaju svoja prva seksualna iskustva znatno kasnije od svojih vršnjaka u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama i Velikoj Britaniji, javlja CNN.
Stručnjaci za javno zdravstvo sa sveučilišta u Tokiju otkrili su da u zemlji mladi sve kasnije stupaju u spolne odnose. Tako je postotak žena u dobi od 18 do 39 godina koje se nikad nisu seksale porastao s 21,7% u 1992. godini na 24,6% u 2015..
Situacija je izraženija kod djevaca iste dobi kojih je u 2015. bilo 25,8%, za razliku od 20% u 1992. godini.
Nacionalni problem
"Seksualno neiskustvo postaje nacionalni problem za Japan“ rekao je Peter Ueda, stručnjak za javno zdravstvo na sveučilištu u Tokiju.
Za usporedbu, prema anketama iz Velike Britanije, Sjedinjenih Američkih Država i Australije, stopa heteroseksualnog neiskustva u tim zemljama je između 1% do 5% među odraslim osobama u tridesetim godinama života.
Znanstvenici sa sveučilišta u Tokiju definirali su heteroseksualno seksualno iskustvo kao vaginalni odnos između muškaraca i žena. U istraživanje nisu uključivali odgovore članova LGBTQ zajednice ili onih osoba koje su se izjašnjavale kao aseksualne.
Izuzetno stara nacija
Pitanje nataliteta važno je za Japan jer stanovništvo te zemlje ubrzano stari. Tako se Japan smatra izuzetno starom nacijom, što znači da više od 20% stanovništva ima preko 65 godina. Samo je 946.060 beba rođeno u 2017. godini, što je najniži broj novorođenčadi od 1899. godine, kada su se počeli bilježiti podaci te vrste.
Manji broj djece znači i manji broj radne snage koja je potrebna za uzdržavanje sve starije populacije u smislu uplaćivanja u zdravstveni i mirovinski fond. Stoga posljednjih godina japanske vlasti rade na pronatalitetnoj politici.
"Seks se u Japanu smatra prljavim“
Unatoč natalitetnoj politici, ali i sve jačoj porno industriji, pornografija i seks ostaju tabu.
"Seks se u Japanu smatra prljavim i nemoralnim", rekla je kulturologinja Kukhee Choo sa sveučilišta Sophia University.
"Moji studenti imaju poteškoće s uporabom riječi 'penis' ili 'vagina', a ako žena izrazi bilo kakvo znanje ili zanimanje za seks, smatra se nemoralnom. Ni muškarci ne razgovaraju o tim temama", dodala je.
https://www.index.hr/mobile/clanak.aspx?category=vijesti&id=2077032
RayMabus- Posts : 184105
2014-04-11
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"Seks se u Japanu smatra prljavim i nemoralnim", rekla je kulturologinja Kukhee Choo sa sveučilišta Sophia University.
Zato imaju tako perverzne ctriće i stripove :)
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2015-08-22
Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
japanski freudovski ispušni ventil.catabbath wrote:
"Seks se u Japanu smatra prljavim i nemoralnim", rekla je kulturologinja Kukhee Choo sa sveučilišta Sophia University.
Zato imaju tako perverzne ctriće i stripove :)
u protestantizmu je ispušni ventil za "prljavi sex" bio poduzeništvo , business (to se njegovalo tamo u 18,19 stoljeću pogotovo)
u islamu je jihad, koze, pederluk
danas je ispušni ventil za sex sam sex(barem na zapadu) .. iako ga hrpa ljudi ne upražnjava (evolucijski je tako u prirodi , velik broj životinja se ne sexa niti ostavlja potomstvo)
AssadNaPodmornici- Posts : 22267
2018-06-14
Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
Manji broj djece znači i manji broj radne snage koja je potrebna za uzdržavanje sve starije populacije u smislu uplaćivanja u zdravstveni i mirovinski fond.
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Aha tu smo znači. Šta je ? A roboti ništa a ?
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Aha tu smo znači. Šta je ? A roboti ništa a ?
RayMabus- Posts : 184105
2014-04-11
Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
Bas i ne vjerujem ovim brojkama.
Pretjerano da ga jebes.
Pretjerano da ga jebes.
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Posts : 18912
2015-08-09
Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
Pogledaj im natalitet u zadnjih pet godina.dijagram wrote:Bas i ne vjerujem ovim brojkama.
Pretjerano da ga jebes.
RayMabus- Posts : 184105
2014-04-11
Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
nije ni nas nesto, al svakako je vise sksa nego natalitetna tablica kazeRayMabus wrote:Pogledaj im natalitet u zadnjih pet godina.dijagram wrote:Bas i ne vjerujem ovim brojkama.
Pretjerano da ga jebes.
vjerojatno lazu u anketama:)
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Posts : 18912
2015-08-09
Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
gluposti i kojesta..Bas japanezi medju prvima krecu u seksualne pohode..tome svjedoci hrpa porno videja na granici pedofajlije...
na svakom porno portalu ima zasebna grupa JAPAN porno ili Japan family porno,gdje obicno sudjeluje cijela obitelj,uzduz i porijeko..
http://www.japanporn.xxx
na svakom porno portalu ima zasebna grupa JAPAN porno ili Japan family porno,gdje obicno sudjeluje cijela obitelj,uzduz i porijeko..
http://www.japanporn.xxx
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Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
Pa ne lažu , anketa obuhvaća populaciju od 18 do 39 godina. Imaš 25% djevaca i djevica , znači u prosjeku to negdi s 25 godina stupa u seksualni odnos.
Igraju videoigrice do 25.
Igraju videoigrice do 25.
RayMabus- Posts : 184105
2014-04-11
Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
Da gledao sam neki dokumentarac proške godine, Japanci su jako usamljeni i ne jebu.
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2015-08-22
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Otudjena nacija..preduboko se uzive u posel i lojalnost firmi..i zadnji atom energije posvecuju tome..
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Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
catabbath wrote:
"Seks se u Japanu smatra prljavim i nemoralnim", rekla je kulturologinja Kukhee Choo sa sveučilišta Sophia University.
Zato imaju tako perverzne ctriće i stripove :)
to je kretenarija, u japanu je oduvijek bilo normalno i prihvatljivo da se mlade djevojke prostituiraju za darove od starijih muškaraca, i uvijek su bile odgajane zato da muškarcu pruže užitak, to im je svrha postojanja, zato su japanke najbolje u seksu. U japanu je posve normalno da cura ide na tečaj pušenja kurca, ko na tečaj stranog jezika.
stvar je u tome da u japanu jednostavno, kao i u većini visoko razvijenih društava, seks više nikog ne zanima nakon puberteta.
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marcellus- Posts : 46005
2014-04-16
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bar ne seks u živo, koji je povezan s naporima, troškovima, problemima, i gubitkom vremena, kad postoji dostupna besplatna pornografija
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marcellus- Posts : 46005
2014-04-16
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bravo Marc...najcjenjenije kurwe na svijetu su Gejše..
Nish..valja nakupovati darova i picit za Japan..dok jos kicma moze da se savija...
Nish..valja nakupovati darova i picit za Japan..dok jos kicma moze da se savija...
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Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
Normalno.marcellus wrote:bar ne seks u živo, koji je povezan s naporima, troškovima, problemima, i gubitkom vremena, kad postoji dostupna besplatna pornografija
A ništa eto nek dignu porodiljne naknade pa nek proučavaju šta se dešava, imaju godišnji natalitet od miljon beba , znači digni 100 eura porodiljnu naknadu to je 100 miljona eura.
Emanicipacija košta.
RayMabus- Posts : 184105
2014-04-11
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japanci i japanke su visokoobrazovani eksperti,i cesto imaju radno vrijem jako opako..i po 10-12 sati..poslije toga tanka vecera tush i spavanjac..tko bi jos i seksao..
Trebalo bi pohoditi taj Japan..
Trebalo bi pohoditi taj Japan..
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Nek dignu porodiljne naknade , sto eura je sto miljuna eura godišnje za miljon beba.
Emanicipacija košta. Sad pljuni pare.
Emanicipacija košta. Sad pljuni pare.
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2014-04-11
Re: Nejebica u Japanu postala državni problem
stvaraoci, radoholičari, naprednjacipismejker wrote:Otudjena nacija..preduboko se uzive u posel i lojalnost firmi..i zadnji atom energije posvecuju tome..
pojedincima je to teško shvatiti
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Why Japanese People Aren’t Having Sex?
After living in Japan for a few years, this actually makes sense to me. Okay, I’m not like a sociologist or anything. I’m just some dude in Japan who tries to find a clean pair of socks so he can put one on and run to the station to cram onto the train with ten thousand of the unhappiest Japanese people you’ve ever seen. I don’t pretend to have discovered the Unified Field Theory of Japanese sexuality, but I’ll give you four factors that I think are contributing.
Thing One: Work in Japan
People in Japan, and Tokyo in particular, work a ridiculous amount, in a way that’s hard to comprehend if you live in, say, sunny California. Take a former student of mine, Naoko, who worked as a programmer. She worked—wrap your head around this—twenty hours a day.
“Every day at 4 a.m.,” she said, “they’d turn off the lights and we’d sleep at our desks for four hours.
“Did you have locker rooms?” I asked. “What about clothes?
“I just wore the same clothes, but on Sunday I’d go home for half a day, to shower. The men only went home once a month.
“That must have smelled pretty nice. How long’d you do that for?
“Five years and three months,” she said.
Okay, so maybe that’s an extreme example. A more typical case is probably my former student Masahiro, who’s an executive at a famous beverage manufacturer. He works from 9 a.m. until to midnight, six days a week, with a 15-minute lunch break at his desk. He has Sunday off, which is when he studies English.
“I have it easy,” he said, “since I work at an international company. Japanese places are a lot worse.”
“Do you ever see your wife?” I asked.
“I see her on Sunday,” he said.
“But Sunday’s when you come here to study English,” I pointed out.
“Ah, good point,” he said.
For most people, it comes down to two choices: work like mad as a single person and have a tiny apartment full of dirty clothes and half-eaten Cup Ramen containers, or get married. That way, the man goes off to work, and when he comes home after midnight, his dinner is sitting on the table covered in Saran Wrap, and there’s hot water in the tub. His wife and daughter are already asleep. Shopping, ironing, cleaning, paying the bills, everything’s taken care of for him. All he has to do is bring home a paycheck. The woman gets to do all the fun, fulfilling things like taking care of baby, grocery shopping, cleaning, and cooking meals. Sometimes I’ll ask my adult students how often they see their spouses, or ask the kids when they see their fathers. The answer is roughly on par with how often I’ve seen the Easter Bunny. I am, however, a big fan of marshmallow Peeps, so maybe it’s not as infrequent as you think.
The young Japanese people of today grew up watching their parents live this life, and it’s understandable if they’re not thrilled about this option. Marriage isn’t a great choice; it’s just the second-worst option. For a man, it means he’s working to pay for his wife. For a woman, it means a life of indentured servitude. A lot of people are apparently “just saying no” to the whole thing.
Thing Two: Prostitution in Japan
Again, this is a hard thing to reconcile if you don’t live in Japan, but being in a relationship and having sex have precious little to do with one another. For a Japanese male, it’s possible to get sex almost anywhere, at any time, for little more than the price of a decent lunch. Anyone who’s been in Japan for even a short while has seen the rows of shops offering all the usual services. (As an aside, I’ll add that “foreigners” aren’t allowed in. You can be that crazy dude who lives under a bridge and rides a bicycle with garbage bags full of tin cans hanging off the back, but as long as you’re “Japanese,” you’re good to go. But Japanese racism is a whole other subject.)
Now, I’m in no way saying that the majority of men and women participate in this, but the fact that the institution exists changes the social dynamic. All Japanese people innately recognize that:
If you’re a man with just a little bit of money, you can have sex with as many attractive women as you want.
and
If you’re an attractive woman, well . . . Look, I teach English for a living. Every week, people pay me to sit in Starbucks and simply talk with them. Afterwards, I go to a bar, and every week, sure as hell, someone will approach me and say, “Wow, let’s speak English together!” Now, I may even want to, but really, who gives away what they can sell? It’s my job, not my hobby.
So prostitution has turned sex in Japan into a commodity. It’s something that’s available for purchase, like movie tickets or a head of cabbage or something. Sex isn’t an expression of love between two people; it’s something that can be bought or sold when necessary.
Now don’t get me wrong—again, I don’t mean to imply that there are a lot of men going to these places, or a lot of women working there. It sure seems that way, but I don’t actually know. What I mean to say is that the fact that it exists changes the way people view relationships. As in, I once dated a girl who told me, “You know, a lot of men would pay good money to be dating me like you are.” Which I really couldn’t argue with because, well, she was right. They would.
Thing Three: Japanese Social Relations
Recently, a friend of mine got married to a man through an arranged marriage. She used to get drunk and try to kiss me whenever my girlfriend ran to the bathroom. She was awesome like that, actually.
“Do you love him?” I asked.
“He does train maintenance,” she said. “That’s a stable job.
“I’m pretty sure you just answered a different question,” I said.
“Well, I will eventually,” she replied.
I’ll try to put this in the best light possible, but Japanese social relations . . . um, well, they’re terrible. Okay, that didn’t come out so well. Abysmal? No, that’s worse, not better. [*Note to self: insert more nuanced term before posting this.]
The society functions with robot-like efficiency because your boss tells you what do—or your parents, or your teacher—and you do it. There’s a hierarchy. If you work in a ramen shop, you don’t say, “Hey boss, how about if, instead of two pieces of pork in the noodles, we tried three?” Are you insane? That’s not how things work. The fact is, you don’t challenge what you’re told, you don’t offer up original ideas, and you don’t initiate conversation with strangers. Which presents a koan-like riddle: If you don’t talk to people you don’t know, how do you get to know people?
I’ve lived in my current apartment building for, let’s see, about a year and a half now. Man, time flies. Anyway, in that time the number of neighbors I’ve met is . . . zero. I actually rode the elevator down with a guy yesterday. He was about my age and was tying his tie while I was still fumbling into my shoes. Okay, so here’s a little quiz for you, to see how well you know Japanese culture:
I figured I’d break the ice with a non-threatening situational observation, so I said in Japanese:
“Yeah, another busy morning, huh?”
To which he replied (choose one):
A. “Yeah, it sure is.”
B. “Oh jeez, I can’t believe my alarm didn’t go off.”
C. “Do you know how to tie a Double Windsor?”
D. “Holy crap, a white guy in my building!”
E. Absolutely freaking nothing.
If you chose “Absolutely freaking nothing,” then congratulations, you’re about halfway to earning a Bachelor’s in East Asian Studies. The reality is: people don’t have a lot of contact with each other. For Japanese folks, it’s insanely difficult to establish friendships and connections, which is no doubt why so many Host and Hostess Bars exist, so people can at least pay someone to talk to them.
Japanese people excel at social interactions when there are clearly defined roles: Boss and Worker, Clerk and Customer, Drunk Salaryman and Gaijin. There are clear rules and precedents for those situations. But for two Japanese people to strike up a conversation while in line at the grocery store? Well, it’s hypothetically possible, I suppose, like Dark Matter or something.
Thing Four: That Sexy Sexy Atmosphere
People are massively impacted by their environment and the people around them. That’s the Ken Seeroi Theory of Human Behavior. Wikipedia it. That means that if everyone else is having an awesome, sexy time, you’re more likely to as well. That’s why we have New Year’s Eve. When it’s a sunny day, everybody’s happy, and when it rains, everybody’s glum. Life’s funny like that.
So I was talking this over with my colleague Fujimoto-sensei last week, and he said,
“Ah, Ken, you should have seen it in the 90’s. Japan was different then. Everybody was making money, people were positive, it was more fun.
To which I replied, “Uh, it’s ‘Seeroi-sensei,’ remember? But yeah, I’ve heard that from a lot of people.
“Sorry, Ken-sensei,” he said. Then, “You know I used to have a wife and a girlfriend in those days.
“And now all you have is a wife?” I asked.
“Yeah,” he sighed. “I think we’re in a recession.”
So then after work, I went to my usual shokudo, which is basically like a cheap restaurant. It’s a tad dingy and run-down, but the food’s solid. I think of it like an extra living room, which helps since my apartment’s so darn small. The place was packed full of about thirty guys and gals in dark suits all sitting alone in silence, eating and reading manga or staring at their smartphones with glazed eyes. I stayed for about an hour and a half, ate some grilled mackerel and rice and miso soup, drank an Asahi beer, and watched TV. Their grilled fish is really good, I must say. The only person I talked with was the waitress, which is pretty typical. She’s about sixty and doesn’t say stupid things like, “Wow, you can use chopsticks,” so I like her. Then I walked the concrete corridor to the station and silently waited in line for the train.
When it came, it was packed as always, so we put on our faces of resignation and forced ourselves on since we had to, then rode without a word. When I got to my neighborhood it was dark, which was fine since there’s really not much to see anyway, nothing like a river or a tree or anything. Well, there is a little brown canal nearby, so I guess that’s something. I stepped around some rain puddles on the asphalt as I walked past the same gray blocks of condominiums I do every day, and thought, There must be a thousand units, and someone living in each one. Why is it I never see anyone on a balcony or in a window? And suddenly that seemed kind of strange, but then the feeling passed.
Eventually I got to my own dark building and rode the elevator up. Did I simply come to Japan too late? I wondered. Like 20 years too late? Then I opened the door and found my apartment just as I left it, full of dirty laundry and Cup Noodle containers. Nah, Japan’s still wonderful, I thought as I took a can of malt liquor from the fridge. I just need a Japanese wife–that’s the ticket. Someone to clean this place up, cook me some hot meals, and love, eventually.
After living in Japan for a few years, this actually makes sense to me. Okay, I’m not like a sociologist or anything. I’m just some dude in Japan who tries to find a clean pair of socks so he can put one on and run to the station to cram onto the train with ten thousand of the unhappiest Japanese people you’ve ever seen. I don’t pretend to have discovered the Unified Field Theory of Japanese sexuality, but I’ll give you four factors that I think are contributing.
Thing One: Work in Japan
People in Japan, and Tokyo in particular, work a ridiculous amount, in a way that’s hard to comprehend if you live in, say, sunny California. Take a former student of mine, Naoko, who worked as a programmer. She worked—wrap your head around this—twenty hours a day.
“Every day at 4 a.m.,” she said, “they’d turn off the lights and we’d sleep at our desks for four hours.
“Did you have locker rooms?” I asked. “What about clothes?
“I just wore the same clothes, but on Sunday I’d go home for half a day, to shower. The men only went home once a month.
“That must have smelled pretty nice. How long’d you do that for?
“Five years and three months,” she said.
Okay, so maybe that’s an extreme example. A more typical case is probably my former student Masahiro, who’s an executive at a famous beverage manufacturer. He works from 9 a.m. until to midnight, six days a week, with a 15-minute lunch break at his desk. He has Sunday off, which is when he studies English.
“I have it easy,” he said, “since I work at an international company. Japanese places are a lot worse.”
“Do you ever see your wife?” I asked.
“I see her on Sunday,” he said.
“But Sunday’s when you come here to study English,” I pointed out.
“Ah, good point,” he said.
For most people, it comes down to two choices: work like mad as a single person and have a tiny apartment full of dirty clothes and half-eaten Cup Ramen containers, or get married. That way, the man goes off to work, and when he comes home after midnight, his dinner is sitting on the table covered in Saran Wrap, and there’s hot water in the tub. His wife and daughter are already asleep. Shopping, ironing, cleaning, paying the bills, everything’s taken care of for him. All he has to do is bring home a paycheck. The woman gets to do all the fun, fulfilling things like taking care of baby, grocery shopping, cleaning, and cooking meals. Sometimes I’ll ask my adult students how often they see their spouses, or ask the kids when they see their fathers. The answer is roughly on par with how often I’ve seen the Easter Bunny. I am, however, a big fan of marshmallow Peeps, so maybe it’s not as infrequent as you think.
The young Japanese people of today grew up watching their parents live this life, and it’s understandable if they’re not thrilled about this option. Marriage isn’t a great choice; it’s just the second-worst option. For a man, it means he’s working to pay for his wife. For a woman, it means a life of indentured servitude. A lot of people are apparently “just saying no” to the whole thing.
Thing Two: Prostitution in Japan
Again, this is a hard thing to reconcile if you don’t live in Japan, but being in a relationship and having sex have precious little to do with one another. For a Japanese male, it’s possible to get sex almost anywhere, at any time, for little more than the price of a decent lunch. Anyone who’s been in Japan for even a short while has seen the rows of shops offering all the usual services. (As an aside, I’ll add that “foreigners” aren’t allowed in. You can be that crazy dude who lives under a bridge and rides a bicycle with garbage bags full of tin cans hanging off the back, but as long as you’re “Japanese,” you’re good to go. But Japanese racism is a whole other subject.)
Now, I’m in no way saying that the majority of men and women participate in this, but the fact that the institution exists changes the social dynamic. All Japanese people innately recognize that:
If you’re a man with just a little bit of money, you can have sex with as many attractive women as you want.
and
If you’re an attractive woman, well . . . Look, I teach English for a living. Every week, people pay me to sit in Starbucks and simply talk with them. Afterwards, I go to a bar, and every week, sure as hell, someone will approach me and say, “Wow, let’s speak English together!” Now, I may even want to, but really, who gives away what they can sell? It’s my job, not my hobby.
So prostitution has turned sex in Japan into a commodity. It’s something that’s available for purchase, like movie tickets or a head of cabbage or something. Sex isn’t an expression of love between two people; it’s something that can be bought or sold when necessary.
Now don’t get me wrong—again, I don’t mean to imply that there are a lot of men going to these places, or a lot of women working there. It sure seems that way, but I don’t actually know. What I mean to say is that the fact that it exists changes the way people view relationships. As in, I once dated a girl who told me, “You know, a lot of men would pay good money to be dating me like you are.” Which I really couldn’t argue with because, well, she was right. They would.
Thing Three: Japanese Social Relations
Recently, a friend of mine got married to a man through an arranged marriage. She used to get drunk and try to kiss me whenever my girlfriend ran to the bathroom. She was awesome like that, actually.
“Do you love him?” I asked.
“He does train maintenance,” she said. “That’s a stable job.
“I’m pretty sure you just answered a different question,” I said.
“Well, I will eventually,” she replied.
I’ll try to put this in the best light possible, but Japanese social relations . . . um, well, they’re terrible. Okay, that didn’t come out so well. Abysmal? No, that’s worse, not better. [*Note to self: insert more nuanced term before posting this.]
The society functions with robot-like efficiency because your boss tells you what do—or your parents, or your teacher—and you do it. There’s a hierarchy. If you work in a ramen shop, you don’t say, “Hey boss, how about if, instead of two pieces of pork in the noodles, we tried three?” Are you insane? That’s not how things work. The fact is, you don’t challenge what you’re told, you don’t offer up original ideas, and you don’t initiate conversation with strangers. Which presents a koan-like riddle: If you don’t talk to people you don’t know, how do you get to know people?
I’ve lived in my current apartment building for, let’s see, about a year and a half now. Man, time flies. Anyway, in that time the number of neighbors I’ve met is . . . zero. I actually rode the elevator down with a guy yesterday. He was about my age and was tying his tie while I was still fumbling into my shoes. Okay, so here’s a little quiz for you, to see how well you know Japanese culture:
I figured I’d break the ice with a non-threatening situational observation, so I said in Japanese:
“Yeah, another busy morning, huh?”
To which he replied (choose one):
A. “Yeah, it sure is.”
B. “Oh jeez, I can’t believe my alarm didn’t go off.”
C. “Do you know how to tie a Double Windsor?”
D. “Holy crap, a white guy in my building!”
E. Absolutely freaking nothing.
If you chose “Absolutely freaking nothing,” then congratulations, you’re about halfway to earning a Bachelor’s in East Asian Studies. The reality is: people don’t have a lot of contact with each other. For Japanese folks, it’s insanely difficult to establish friendships and connections, which is no doubt why so many Host and Hostess Bars exist, so people can at least pay someone to talk to them.
Japanese people excel at social interactions when there are clearly defined roles: Boss and Worker, Clerk and Customer, Drunk Salaryman and Gaijin. There are clear rules and precedents for those situations. But for two Japanese people to strike up a conversation while in line at the grocery store? Well, it’s hypothetically possible, I suppose, like Dark Matter or something.
Thing Four: That Sexy Sexy Atmosphere
People are massively impacted by their environment and the people around them. That’s the Ken Seeroi Theory of Human Behavior. Wikipedia it. That means that if everyone else is having an awesome, sexy time, you’re more likely to as well. That’s why we have New Year’s Eve. When it’s a sunny day, everybody’s happy, and when it rains, everybody’s glum. Life’s funny like that.
So I was talking this over with my colleague Fujimoto-sensei last week, and he said,
“Ah, Ken, you should have seen it in the 90’s. Japan was different then. Everybody was making money, people were positive, it was more fun.
To which I replied, “Uh, it’s ‘Seeroi-sensei,’ remember? But yeah, I’ve heard that from a lot of people.
“Sorry, Ken-sensei,” he said. Then, “You know I used to have a wife and a girlfriend in those days.
“And now all you have is a wife?” I asked.
“Yeah,” he sighed. “I think we’re in a recession.”
So then after work, I went to my usual shokudo, which is basically like a cheap restaurant. It’s a tad dingy and run-down, but the food’s solid. I think of it like an extra living room, which helps since my apartment’s so darn small. The place was packed full of about thirty guys and gals in dark suits all sitting alone in silence, eating and reading manga or staring at their smartphones with glazed eyes. I stayed for about an hour and a half, ate some grilled mackerel and rice and miso soup, drank an Asahi beer, and watched TV. Their grilled fish is really good, I must say. The only person I talked with was the waitress, which is pretty typical. She’s about sixty and doesn’t say stupid things like, “Wow, you can use chopsticks,” so I like her. Then I walked the concrete corridor to the station and silently waited in line for the train.
When it came, it was packed as always, so we put on our faces of resignation and forced ourselves on since we had to, then rode without a word. When I got to my neighborhood it was dark, which was fine since there’s really not much to see anyway, nothing like a river or a tree or anything. Well, there is a little brown canal nearby, so I guess that’s something. I stepped around some rain puddles on the asphalt as I walked past the same gray blocks of condominiums I do every day, and thought, There must be a thousand units, and someone living in each one. Why is it I never see anyone on a balcony or in a window? And suddenly that seemed kind of strange, but then the feeling passed.
Eventually I got to my own dark building and rode the elevator up. Did I simply come to Japan too late? I wondered. Like 20 years too late? Then I opened the door and found my apartment just as I left it, full of dirty laundry and Cup Noodle containers. Nah, Japan’s still wonderful, I thought as I took a can of malt liquor from the fridge. I just need a Japanese wife–that’s the ticket. Someone to clean this place up, cook me some hot meals, and love, eventually.
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