Japanese Christmas Lonelier Than Ever
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 25, 2013 20:19 JST
- Tags: Christmas, Dating, Events, Marketing, Otaku, Relationships, Statistics
Fully 70% of Japanese young men now report their Christmases will be spent in (for Japan) untraditional celibate loneliness, and women are scarcely any better of with 58% stuck twiddling their mistletoe in abject solitude.
Christmas in Japan – not a public holiday, mainly a dating event for couples ending at a local love hotel, and so consumerised KFC has the nation booking months in advance for Christmas dinners of its delicious fried chicken – may bear little resemblance to the west’s premier shopping event, but has been steadily growing in popularity all the same.
Despite its reputation as a night for couples however, it seems fewer Japanese than ever actually have anyone to “celebrate” it with – as a restaurant-based survey of 1800 Japanese men and women in their twenties and thirties demonstrated.
Fully 70% of the men and 58% of the women reported they did not even have a partner, with a total of 64.5% of those questioned preparing for a lonely Christmas.
So prevalent is the lonely Christmas amongst young people, that to contrast this against the admittedly already warped notion that it should be spent at a hotel charging hourly rates the media has even taken to cruelly calling them “kuri-bocchi.”
In news perhaps not unrelated, pornhub.com has made news with the claim that whilst traffic from the rest of the world to its pages declines 22% over Christmas, traffic from Japanese actually increases 8% over the same period.
The news has been greeted with glee by the jealous majority who could be forgiven for being sick of hearing the message that they should be amongst the throngs of youthful couples jamming Japan’s public spaces around Christmas:
“‘Kuribocchi’ – who comes up with this nonsense?”
“They just made that up…”
“Come on – I bet this was always the normal way Japanese spent their Christmas anyway!”
“Just a bunch of old guys making up weird terms to push their own objectives on young people.”
“What kind of pubescent chuunibyou actually get excited by Christmas and Valentine’s anyway.”
“They are clearly in the majority so this is the normal way of spending Christmas!”
“Maybe a few bubble brainers spent Christmas splurging but I don’t think many of today’s Japanese are keen to spend money during it.”
“Post-30 you don’t even feel angry about it. Just spend it alone.”
“Please release us from this idiotic event with its Santa and stupid cakes. What are you lot, Christians or something? Christmas, Valentine’s, Halloween, you are just victims of consumerism, stop imitating the customs of the hairy barbarians.”
“Japanese – realise you are being manipulated into celebrating a Christian festival when you are not even Christians! Stop just blindly following what other people do.”
“Brothers, let us go to church and pray on this most holy of days.”
“Well, I’m off out – to a brothel.”
“I thought we were calling this ‘singlebell’… (´・ω・｀)?”
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The KFC is accurate.
In Japan, you go out to KFC to get your Christmas dinners instead.
In Brazil they merged catholic Christmas and US thanksgiving so they eat turkey in Christmas
Americans go to Chinese restaurant, while Japanese go to KFC. Something about this amuses me.
If americans go to chinese restaurant and japanese eat american fastfood where urban chinese eat in Christmas and how many contries are involved in this celebration cycle?
Christmas should be spent staying up late marathoning you're waifu's anime and keeping a gun in hand to blast away Santa Claus when he tries to break into your house.
Just a gun?
And just one?
Bitch, when Christmas comes, my home is more militarised than the Korean border.
Stop acting black.
MUP DA DOO DIDDA PO MO GUB BIDDA BE DAT TUM MUHFUGEN BIX NOOD COF BIN DUB HO MUHFUGGA
@Merry Kudistmas
Your use of that after all these years was the best Christmas gift I could have asked for.
You damn hater. You just hate me, because I'm black!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNgb9OK7I-A
House LIfe and Kudistan sharing a WHITE CHRISTMAS.
Share it while you can, butthurt crackers.
30-something oddly un-married House LIfe jerkin it to his imaginary white bitch who has a covert penis while Kudistan jerks it to his mOE-BLOB CUNT who has a trendy ANIMU DICK (after he takes his 30th hit of mescaline) finally cum to terms about themselves.
They crave the penis that all these shallow cunts didn't have the balls to produce. How dare they.
Fucking cunts.
DICK DICK DICK DICK DICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now they have it. Face to face. I now pronounce them man and man.
LOL you ni99ers and piss skins fuckin hate each other while trying to bitch at the man.
We love raping the fuck out of another Tawana Brawley.
@ Anon 20:39
Wut? I'm trying to find something useful in what you said, but all I see is a coward anon who can't form a coherent thought.
Is 'gun' slang for penis? :/
Only if you're a liberal.
This is going in the archive.
"Happiness is a warm gun."
Indeed it is also a warm laser cannon or mass driver.
Merry Christmas cat man.
your*
I swear to God...
Oh, thank god!. For a second, I thought he was conducting some dark ritual involving shooting Santa, that would me into a waifu's anime.
I did'nt know X'Mas was a christian holiday?
Yeah its to celebrate the birth of Christ or that's what it originally was and it only meant something to Christians. Now its just a massive consumer fest with people spending way too much money.
You know what's hilarious? Saint Nick is the patron saint of children and thieves.
That's awesome.
So he stole children and gave them to pedos in need?
No, Christmas is to celibate the Winter Solstice. Jesus was born sometime in August-September. As Christianity spread, it adapted exciting holidays into itself to make it more palatable for the locals. And usually those changes involved rearranging events to coincide with major events in Christianity. Such as the birth of Jesus Christ.
It was retconned several times. Originally it was to celebrate the winter solstice in homage to god Apollo.
Have happy Saturnalia festival!
The Celts didn't worship Apollo, next.
X'Mas = Christmas = Christ Mass
Got moved from January 6 to December 25 because Yule & New Year's Day took up everyone's time, money, & energy because they were more fun to observe than a church service.
>stop imitating the customs of the hairy barbarians
10/10 comment from the nips. lol.
Nips who have no balls to uncensor their porn lol
Their porn isn't censored, their naughty bits actually do look like that.
LOL
LOL
That's literally fucking sad.
LOLCEPTION
I always find it super funny when the Japanese call us "hairy barbarians"... Have they ever watched one of their own adult films?? There is more hair between the two pubic regions of a Japanese couple than I have on my entire body...
I think an actual "Kentucky Christmas" involves a gallon of whiskey and a loaded shotgun.
= One lonely dead body in the morgue
No he said "Kentucky". = two pregnant cousins and a pig named Bessy.
“I thought we were calling this ‘singlebell’… (´・ω・｀)?”
more like singlebawling.
Single bell, single bell, single all the way...
...Fapping to the porn you like --
It's the way to spend the day -- Hey!!
Japanese People, try spending christmas with your family members instead of spending yourself without your GF.
Japanese government & multimedia have installed Christmas as a romantic holiday for two into the minds of the Japanese, just like they have instilled Paris as this perfect city filled with nice people. And that's not going to change.
This was done because most Asian families are already close, meaning that the whole family reunion aspect of Christmas is redundant. So they simply repackaged it to once more boost their confectionery industry, just like they did when they invented White Day. And added a few touches to it, opting to swap multicolor lights for pure white and turning poor teenage girls into Sexy Santas.
" just like they have instilled Paris as this perfect city filled with nice people"
lmfao!
Japanese tourists are so traumatised when they find out what French people are actually like that many of them have to be hospitalised.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6197921.stm
To be fair the problem isn't really the French, it is the parisians.
Even THEM usually ackonwledge they're assholes with strangers.
oh i thought it was just because they dont shower regularly and their women dont shave their armpits.
they probably have trouble finding a real french person,while dodging the muslim street prayers and rioting africans
Paris is Europe's dirty smelly asshole.
Depressing, isn't it? Japan is not that different from the Koreas/Chinese when it comes to having no found purpose of your life through hobbies/interests and are raised to be a robot drone and work til you die. Their government is manipulating their own people, at least with good intentions -- but it might be too late: Japan is dying.
That's something that wasn't explained to them well i guess when they adopted the holidays, they aren't meant to be spent with just one person, they're meant to be spent with your whole family, only the Valentines holidays are meant to be just as a couple.
That's what New Year is for in Japan.