Breaking News: Beautiful Women More Attractive Than Ugly Women
Which of these women women do you find more attractive?
A Japanese TV show recently conducted a series of experiments in which men were placed in mundane situations involving the two women above (the prettier girl is on the right, for those of you who are blind) and would have to make a choice between them.
In the first experiment, a group of randomly selected men were told to go into a cafe and buy one of the products sold there. Thinking they were taking part in some sort of product marketing research, then men bought drinks. The interior of the cafe had been rigged so that the only open seats were those between the pretty girl and the not pretty girl. Who would they rather sit next to?
Result: Of the 50 men, 36 picked the seat next to the pretty girl, while 14 picked the seat next to the not pretty girl. One guy picked the seat next to the not pretty girl so he could get a better view of the pretty girl.
For the second experiment, men were given 1000 yen and told to buy something in a convenience store. In actuality, the test was to see if they would rather pay for their purchases at the register manned by the pretty girl:
Result: The program claimed men preferred the pretty girl, but it did not reveal the actual numbers.
For the third experiment, the women were positioned along a street and would ask male pedestrians for directions. Which girl would they be more polite to?
Result: Once again it is claimed that men gave better reactions to the pretty girl, but the numerical result was not disclosed.
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Categories: Japanese Girls, Japanese TV
Japanese Professional Eater Snack Foods
Frito Lay has just released special snacks endorsed by two of Japan’s most famous eaters:
The Food Stadium snacks will come in the two varieties: Giant Shirota’s burnt rice soy sauce-flavored snacks, and Tomoko Miyake’s sukiyaki-flavored snacks
[via EatFeats]
Categories: Japanese Food
Printable Tract Against Fingerprinting System
Re-entry Japan, the blog dedicated to protesting Japan’s new immigration system, has created a 1-page tract explaining some of the positions against fingerprinting foreigners:
The tract, which is written in Japanese, French, and English, can be downloaded from their site. They encourage visitors to print it out and have included suggestions on how to distribute it. (Link updated on November 29, 2007 to reflect a newer version of the sheet)
Categories: Discrimination, Foreigners in Japan
Japan Airlines Invades Privacy of its Employees
200 employees of Japan Airlines are suing the company after it was discovered that JAL and its union had been secretly creating files full of personal information about 9800 of its employees. The two pictures below show some of the 158 types of data the files contained.
A few examples of entries included in the files:
- “Single Mother”
- “Zainichi Korean”
- “Breast Cancer”
- “Member of Sokka Gakkai Religion”
- “Divorced”
- “Father was a teacher”
- “Stupid”
As one would rightly expect, the employees are demanding monetary compensation from JAL for this outrage.
Update: Japan Times ran an English language story about this in today’s edition. It has a bit more information in it, but few details, since it looks to be a bland translation of reports that didn’t include actual examples of what items were on the list.
Categories: Discrimination, General Japan
