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The most common outward show of stress is a display of anger. This is also in a way a bit of a stress reducer because - from my personal experience - after being rude to someone, my temper is quickly replaced by guilt. Also stressful, but less so that keeping the anger pent up.

 

IMO, in Japan, because they've been trained rigorously to be polite all the time, the pent up stress and anger finds no release except through drinking, or, suicide.

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Another reason why people getting angry is rare in Japan is because individualism is not so strong. So there's less friction between people. The group mentality enables them to put aside differences and keep on moving forward. This does have the side effect of slow decision making as a group though.

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The most common outward show of stress is a display of anger. This is also in a way a bit of a stress reducer because - from my personal experience - after being rude to someone, my temper is quickly replaced by guilt. Also stressful, but less so that keeping the anger pent up.

 

IMO, in Japan, because they've been trained rigorously to be polite all the time, the pent up stress and anger finds no release except through drinking, or, suicide.

Make love not anger to intentionally misquote the old hippie adage.

Bonobos are quite successfully reducing stress via sexual intercourse. And for example I personally feel very relaxed afterwards. But japanese society seems to make it very complicated to get laid.

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Bonobos are quite successfully reducing stress via sexual intercourse. And for example I personally feel very relaxed afterwards.

I'm flabbergasted! I had no idea at all that one could have sex with a bonobo! Could you sit afterwards?

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Bonobos are quite successfully reducing stress via sexual intercourse. And for example I personally feel very relaxed afterwards.

I'm flabbergasted! I had no idea at all that one could have sex with a bonobo! Could you sit afterwards?

:lol:

 

No no. With a female specimen of homo sapiens of course. Bonobos got too much pelt. And Bonobo boobs are much too small. :lol:

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Bonobos are quite successfully reducing stress via sexual intercourse. And for example I personally feel very relaxed afterwards.

I'm flabbergasted! I had no idea at all that one could have sex with a bonobo! Could you sit afterwards?

:lol:

 

No no. With a female specimen of homo sapiens of course. Bonobos got too much pelt. And Bonobo boobs are much too small. :lol:

 

How would you know? :blink: ^_^

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New Japanese Beauty Trend is To Look Sick

 

 

 

For some of its fans, this is part of the appeal: a niche trend known as "byojaku" (“sickly”) has spread through Japanese magazines and beauty blogs in the last year. Byojaku is characterized by pale skin, puffy undereye bags (yes, there are even tutorials for emulating that no-sleep sag), and reddish skin around the eyes. The result is a fragile, doll-like appearance that suggests you’re in need of looking after. .
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What we need is a peopleofwalmart.JP . No, there isn't one, I checked!

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... why tomatoes....

 

 

Advertisement ;)

 

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/20/national/google-glass-apple-watch-japan-offers-wearable-tomatoes/#.VQ2ceuHkVQU

 

 

As the world’s electronic companies scramble to set the agenda for wearable devices, the vegetable juice company Kagome has gone one step farther — unveiling a wearable tomato machine.

 

The Tomatan is a backpack that can be loaded with six midsize tomatoes — enough, say the makers, to power runners through this weekend’s Tokyo Marathon.

 

“Tomatoes have lots of nutrition that combats fatigue,” Shigenori Suzuki of Kagome said Thursday.

 

The Tomatan looks like a small humanoid robot, with a tomato for a head, and sits snugly on the athlete’s shoulders. Tugging a tiny lever in the foot moves the arms to catch a tomato from the dispensing chute. The arms then rotate the fruit over the runner’s head and hold it in front of his mouth.

 

“We used about 100 tomatoes to complete this machine,” said Nobumichi Tosa of Meiwa Denki, the company that devised the device and is known for its off-the-wall machines and musical instruments. “We focused mostly on its visual design.”

 

Despite its 8-kg weight, Kagome’s Suzuki said he will don the device for a 5-km fun run on Saturday.

 

“I will run by his side carrying my tools, just like an F1 mechanic,” Tosa said.

 

In Sunday’s full Tokyo Marathon, a runner from Kagome will participate with a lighter wearable tomato machine — the Petit-Tomatan — which weighs only about 3 kg, Suzuki said.

 

 

Kagome is a tomato and other viggies company.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagome_%28company%29

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