Saturday, October 06, 2012

The Weirdness that is Japan

Or more accurately, the land where anything can be commercialized?

Eve Tushnet, Japan’s First “Cuddle Cafe” Lets You Sleep with a Stranger for Y6000 an Hour: Japan Today

I was thinking of using "social atomism" as a new tag, but it seems like an oxymoron.

2 comments:

Iosue Andreas Sartorius said...

Just down the road from me there is the Snuggery:

http://www.thesnuggery.org/

papabear said...

Wow. Another business addressing the human need for actual contact, but it seems mixed with the New Age? American weirdness just doesn't seem weird -- it seems normal.