Bonenkai – literally “forget the year” parties are supposed to be an opportunity for colleagues who spend hours together in the workplace to get together for an evening of nomunication, a portmanteau of the Japanese verb to drink, nomu, and communication.
Tokyo is not the only part of Japan struggling with alcohol-fuelled somnolence, with other regions reporting a rise in “road sleeping” at weekends and at the end of the year, when people tend to drink more. In 2020, police in Okinawa reported more than 7,000 cases of rojo-ne – literally sleeping on the road – the previous year, a phenomenon some attribute to the southern island’s balmy weather and enthusiastic consumption of awamori, a strong local spirit.
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Google translation of boozebag to Japanese is Sakebukuro. It probably is too literal a translation but I so want it to be true…
maybe.. if they'd Drink Less; and F*ck MORE... They'd have More Children?
They need to call Uber to the rescue
This street sleeping noticeable in native culture in the southwestern US also. The story is that in Wisconsin the kids have to wait in the car at the bar to drive dad home.
Another to be filed in The Wonders of Alcohol.
It's a big file.
They're not choosing to sleep in the streets, right? Isn't it more accurate to say that people are passing out all over the place, and some of those happen to be in the street?
Andy and Barney would never leave Otis to sleep in the street.
Human speed bumps.
If you were good and drunk, I’d bet you wouldn’t even feel one of those kei cars running over you. It’s be like a milliseconds full body massage…
Darwin-san Awards
McGuire takes Ben aside at the party and says he has three words of advice for him, just three words and those three words are “Japan. Park. Benches”.
Bonenkai parties are fun.
But it is not uncommon (in good weather) to see Japanese business men in suits sleeping on the sidewalk because they missed their train back to the suburbs.
The trains don't run as late as you'd think, and if you live out in Kawasaki or Yokohama, a taxi is out of the question.
Unlike here, they always wake up with their wallets and watches intact...
Japanese salary men are exhausted. Super long commutes. Massive drinking after work. Standing up in the train for hours. Rough life. Ride any subway in Tokyo and you will see sleeping men.
alcohol-fueled somnolence
Bumpy, that is. Who ever thought of somnolence as an activity, fueled by anything?
'Ride any subway in Tokyo and you will see sleeping men.'
But you won't see people shooting heroin or smoking meth, or talking on their phones or playing loud music via boom boxes.
Advantage Japan...
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