I saw this video and I wanted to know what people think about it, especially the Japanese ladies. Do you all see this happening over there now?
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"Makeovers For Japanese Men: Japanese men are changing the way they look and the way they look at themselves. Barry Petersen reports they are dressing up to be more successful at work and with the opposite sex."
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"Makeovers For Japanese Men: Japanese men are changing the way they look and the way they look at themselves. Barry Petersen reports they are dressing up to be more successful at work and with the opposite sex."
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dunno-- It doesn't seem they researched very well before they wrote this...
Japanese men pluck their eyebrows since a long time ago.
You still have to wear grey or black suits at work and fit in with the crowd.
Only very few Japanese women decide not to become housewifes and so compete with men for the same jobs, and if they did this certainly wouldn't be a competition on looks @_@
I guess some foreign news reporter who has been here for a couple of weeks thought "hey, wait, the guys pluck their eyebrows here! lets make a news article out of that!"
Japanese men pluck their eyebrows since a long time ago.
You still have to wear grey or black suits at work and fit in with the crowd.
Only very few Japanese women decide not to become housewifes and so compete with men for the same jobs, and if they did this certainly wouldn't be a competition on looks @_@
I guess some foreign news reporter who has been here for a couple of weeks thought "hey, wait, the guys pluck their eyebrows here! lets make a news article out of that!"
I think (3) is totally right. This wasn't researched too well at all, plus they got all the demographics and social comment wrong.
This is the sort of mis-information the Western press loves to report. It's a bit tiresome really, as most Westerners (and rightly so) believe what they see, take it as matter of fact, make generalizations based on it etc.
Every once in a while when I call my family back in the UK, someone has always read something in a newspaper about Japan and will ask me questions like "well...the Japanese men have to kill themselves if they make a big mistake at work don't they" (notice I don't put a question mark in there).
No matter how much I try to put them off such views it's too late, they already believe it, have formed an opinion/stereotype, " and besides, it has to be the truth I read it in the Telegraph" etc.....
Concerning Girolamo, yeah he's only really a "cover-boy" for LEON isn't he. And only appeals to tiny demographic coined "choiwaru oyaji"....true that was a major trend in the first half of 2006, but I think most people recognise now that "bad dads" are just an extension of the "gyaru ou" trend (for men under 30)....which is just another mainstream trend now.
Women competing with men for jobs sounds great. I hope that part was true....
I personally would like to see more power-skirts around the office. In a Demi Moore style-ee
A Kuroki Hitomi type could order me the fuck around anyday....plus I think with more Women in important postion we'd get less of the pointless "sekkyaku" shit we have to do in Japan to woo clients (male). Perhaps? Maybe...
Anyway...
This is the sort of mis-information the Western press loves to report. It's a bit tiresome really, as most Westerners (and rightly so) believe what they see, take it as matter of fact, make generalizations based on it etc.
Every once in a while when I call my family back in the UK, someone has always read something in a newspaper about Japan and will ask me questions like "well...the Japanese men have to kill themselves if they make a big mistake at work don't they" (notice I don't put a question mark in there).
No matter how much I try to put them off such views it's too late, they already believe it, have formed an opinion/stereotype, " and besides, it has to be the truth I read it in the Telegraph" etc.....
Concerning Girolamo, yeah he's only really a "cover-boy" for LEON isn't he. And only appeals to tiny demographic coined "choiwaru oyaji"....true that was a major trend in the first half of 2006, but I think most people recognise now that "bad dads" are just an extension of the "gyaru ou" trend (for men under 30)....which is just another mainstream trend now.
Women competing with men for jobs sounds great. I hope that part was true....
I personally would like to see more power-skirts around the office. In a Demi Moore style-ee
A Kuroki Hitomi type could order me the fuck around anyday....plus I think with more Women in important postion we'd get less of the pointless "sekkyaku" shit we have to do in Japan to woo clients (male). Perhaps? Maybe...
Anyway...
I was speaking to a Western woman a month or so ago, and she said she wanted to find a Japanese boyfriend. I was interested to know why and her response was they dress well and are well groomed.
In the end I have to admit that Japanese men tend to dress much better than your average Australian guy.
I have a funny story. I have a suit but I only wear it to Funerals. When I went to my Aunties funeral, my shoes which I had only worn maybe 3 times fell apart while I was walking. Apparently over time the rubber in the soles hardens and when you walk it just crumbles...most shoes wear out long before they get to that point but mine still looked brand new even though they were 10 years old. I spent most of the day standing in the corner hoping no-one would notice.
In the end I have to admit that Japanese men tend to dress much better than your average Australian guy.
I have a funny story. I have a suit but I only wear it to Funerals. When I went to my Aunties funeral, my shoes which I had only worn maybe 3 times fell apart while I was walking. Apparently over time the rubber in the soles hardens and when you walk it just crumbles...most shoes wear out long before they get to that point but mine still looked brand new even though they were 10 years old. I spent most of the day standing in the corner hoping no-one would notice.
wow...
I thought that is big talk, but there is some like tendencies in Japan. But I do not want man to change not clothes and face, but wanna have more valuable time. Example, to have time with his family, girlfriend and friend. If a man with good lookeng, there is no use a man with no person to spent with good time.
And I think thereis no relationship men's appearance with woman's work...
I thought that is big talk, but there is some like tendencies in Japan. But I do not want man to change not clothes and face, but wanna have more valuable time. Example, to have time with his family, girlfriend and friend. If a man with good lookeng, there is no use a man with no person to spent with good time.
And I think thereis no relationship men's appearance with woman's work...
What I was suprised in Canada was that some people from other countries and Canada said to me that Japanese men were fashion-holic. I myself don't have a slight sense of outfit though, many Japanese men care about their outfit. About jeans, we can see many people wearing many kind of jeans: colours, shape, "brand", materials etc. Scratched jeans seem big these days. there are experts to make scratchs on jeans. The jeans are sometimes much more expensive than unscratched jeans. I saw a matured lady asking a men, who was wearing scratched jeans, why he and many people pay a lot of many for torn pants. She wraped up the conversation to say that she would buy drawers for her husband rather.
However, I wonder why this flow has happened. Commercialization? Concerning about the St. Valetine day and Happy Holiday, we could be under the influence of many apparel companies.
Hmmm.....I have no ideas. Such flow surely sustains Japanese economy. it may be a way to compete with other men in love competitons. They may be catching up with women.
Anyway, I dont care for I'm tacky.
However, I wonder why this flow has happened. Commercialization? Concerning about the St. Valetine day and Happy Holiday, we could be under the influence of many apparel companies.
Hmmm.....I have no ideas. Such flow surely sustains Japanese economy. it may be a way to compete with other men in love competitons. They may be catching up with women.
Anyway, I dont care for I'm tacky.
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