Japan Husband-hunting school!
With low birth rates in Japan, Some people are trying to find a solution for relationship problems….Take for example this case…An school for spouse hunters in Japan.
The Infini school offers various classes for wannabe brides and grooms at a time when many people in Japan are either shunning the institution of marriage or are finding it very difficult to hook up with a partner.
The school, which is open to men and women, teaches students how to talk, walk and present themselves elegantly in a bid to capture the hearts and minds of prospective partners and their parents, who are often a major obstacle to successful unions.
Infini, which opened last month, now has about 30 female students. An almost equal number of males has signed up, but those who actually turn up to class are much fewer than their female counterparts.
“I had never even thought that my boyfriend’s mother could play such a big role in my relationship, but now I’ve realized I need to start thinking seriously about how to impress my future in-laws,” said Kozue Sugawara, 29, who joined the school after her previous marriage plans failed.
With women wielding increased economic clout and changing social attitudes toward marriage, more Japanese in their 20s and 30s are single than ever before.
Government statistics show nearly two-thirds of women under the age of 34 are unmarried, despite some 3,800 firms in Japan offering match-making services.
The average age of the school’s female students is 30 years.
“Before, people would find it easy to get married because families and society would connect them in some way, sometimes pushing them to get married. But nowadays, people have too many choices and cannot seem to make up their minds,” said Etsuko Satake, principal of the Infini marriage prep school.
Instructors provide critiques about students’ dress, posture and even details such as how they cross their legs or get out of a car. Men and women are taught different skills, which range from how to set a table well to how to be more emotionally expressive.
Students also simulate dates, during which their instructors grade their performance and point out what they did wrong.
The school charges an annual fee of 200,000 yen ($2,217) for unlimited access to its classes.
And some students, such as 32-year-old Mei Oda, seem to think it’s an investment worth making.
“I’m looking for a man who makes more than 10 million yen (110,000 dollars) a year, doesn’t ask me to live with his parents and takes good care of me,” said Oda, a contract office worker.
Experts say that with Japan’s economy plunged deep into recession, many women are taking a renewed interest in marriage and the economic stability it could provide, and are actively seeking a partner through “konkatsu” or spouse-hunting activities.
I dont know if I should cry or laugh about the 10 million yen a year part…I think She is looking for a CEO and not exactly just a husband!
Why Dogs are better than girlfriends?…Japan answers!
Dont blame Me…Thats the title for the post on “What Japan thinks”…Of course, the survey includes boyfriends as well…The real title for the survey is ” moments when people realise as they have a dog they don’t need a partner.” and was made by Goo Ranking
Demographics
Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
Q: At what moments do you realise as you have a dog you don’t need a partner? (Sample size=1,077)
Rank Score 1 When they’re so pleased to see me when I return home 100 2 When they snuggle up close just at the right times 71.1 3 When they know who’s boss 66.9 4 When they only relax when they are by my side 63.3 5 When they are ready and waiting behind the door when I return home 60.8 6 When they get so excited even just for walkies 49.4 7 However often I call them they always come running 47.6 8 Regardless of how foul a mood I am in they don’t get angry 45.8 9 Their sad cries whenever I am going to go out 45.2 10 When they are bored and drop their chins to the floor and look up at me 42.8 11 Even though I give them the same food every day they eat it with gusto 36.1 12 When they look up at me when out for walkies 29.5 13 They always look as if they are smiling 29.5 14 Even right after waking they are all ready to play 24.7 15 When they don’t get moody 22.3 16 When they never get bored retrieving the same toy 19.3 17 When they get so exited when they are going to be left home alone 16.3 18 When they wake me with a smiling face and a passionate kiss 13.3 19 When they eat scraps off the floor 9.6 20 When they get all groggy and car sick 3.6 Source: What Japan thinks / Image Source
Well, I can understand some of the answers…and some others are just plain silly.
JAL Stewardess Uniforms finds a new market!
Japan Airlines wants to protect their stewardess uniforms against fetishists and the Sex industry…
New Japan Airlines are considering sewing security chips into their stewardess uniforms because they have become so popular on the black market.
The airline (JAL) have found the uniforms, which feature grey jackets or waistcoasts, skirts, hats and a red neckerchief, are so in demand in the sex industry that they can be sold for a fortune.
In addition, worn uniforms are incredibly popular with fetishists. While many shops sell credible copies for under £100, genuine JAL uniforms can reach a fortune if sold on the black market.
Consumers believe the prospect of former staff selling their uniforms after being made redundant is highly likely.
Yu Teramoto, who owns a costumier in Tokyo, said: ‘It’s hard to say but it is at moment of confusion and anger like this that the black market for uniforms should do well.’
JAL are now considering following in the footsteps of Japan’s All Nippon Airways, who had a similar problem with their uniforms, by sewing computer chips into the outfits.
After installation, the chips can be tracked from space.
A spokesperson for JAL said the company would be using a new protocol which would mean it was ‘virtually impossible for an individual to hold on to their uniform after they have left their job’.
The spokesperson also admitted that after a uniform worn by staff in the business class lounge surfaced on an internet auction site, JAL paid £1,500 to keep it off the black market.
Source: The Daily Mail
This news reminded me of that Mai Otome episode where there was a black market for Otome Uniforms…Stranger than Fiction? Nah…
Japan temple “flush away” your bad luck!
There are countless stories about toilets in Japan…You can add to the pile this news where japanese people can flush their bad luck…
Tired of an unsatisfying relationship, the sluggish economy or just your own bad habits? Now you really can flush it all down the toilet.
The Mantokuji temple in Japan’s central Gumma prefecture was once an asylum for women who wanted to cut marital ties with their husbands, a function now made obsolete by modern divorce laws and family courts.
Now, the temple is a museum chronicling the history of divorce as well as a place to help people get rid of any bad karma, via a piece of paper they drop into latrines.
Visitors are given two options: the white squat toilet for the “enkiri”, or cutting ties, or the black one for the “enmusubi”, or tightening ties.
“I severed the bind with obesity” said 69-year-old, tea ceremony instructor Shizue Kurokawa, after flushing her “enkiri” tag in the white latrine.
“I’m getting fat and it’s not healthy. From now on I’d like to lose weight, be in fine form and take care of my health.”
According to temple officials, most visitors still come with the purpose of breaking up with their partners, but most do so very discreetly.
Those willing to talk to Reuters had less private wishes.
“I work for a business company and things are not going well. What’s more, deflation is a problem everywhere in Japan,” said 74-year-old Kiyo Suzuki, an employee at a steel production company. “So my prayer is that things may recover for all of us.”
Up until the 19th century, Mantokuji was one of only two women-only convents serving as a refuge for wives who wanted to leave with their husbands.
Women in those days had no legal rights to ask for a divorce, though all a man had to do was to write “I hereby divorce thee” in a letter to make the breakup official.
Convent officials would act as mediators between the couple, and if a reconciliation was not possible, the officials made sure the wife had some sort of legal protection.
“In the past the Mantokuji was a divorce temple. There are only two in Japan and in the whole world,” explained the temple museum director Tadashi Takagi.
“Originally it provided the possibility to break off with bad relationships. Women used to come here to have legal protection and divorce from their husbands. So the idea today is that people get rid of the bad things in their life and become happy.”
Takagi said that with spirits and gods believed to inhabit practically everything in Japan, toilets are no different.
And among the million gods in the Japanese pantheon, the deity of the toilet, kawaya no kami, was considered just as important as the others since he was believed to heal illnesses and help in childbirth, Takagi added.
But ever since the symbolic latrines were installed, accidents have happened.
“When this museum was realized, at first, there were people who took it for a real loo and actually used it. But since we have put a sign indicating that the toilets are for praying, almost nobody makes that mistake anymore,” Takagi said.
Despite its quirky rite, the Mantokuji sanctuary continues to stand as a testimony to women’s rights in Japan. Once inside its gates, unhappy wives did see a change in their fortunes, without really having to flush it away.
Source: Reuters
Talking about odd things with Toilets…Japan have after all, the best toilets in the world…I think!
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