/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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http://www.japancrush.com/2013/stoes/students-eat-in-toilets-and-re-friends-due-to-loneliness.html

>Recent surveys suggest that Japanese university students are finding it increasingly difficult to make friends, and that this is a leading cause for them failing to attend classes, and even dropping out of university altogether. But most striking of all, are the stories of those who are so afraid of being seen alone and labelled as a ‘loner’ by their peers.

>Last summer, the place that Koichi (25, alias) phoned an odd-job firm in Tokyo called Client Partners, requesting ‘Won’t you come along with me?’. He wanted to go to a club that was bustling with young people who liked dancing, and applied for a paid service called ‘rent-a-friend’.It cost 30,000 yen ($344) to go the club with two girls pretending to be his friends. For a freeter this was a painful expenditure, but he was reluctant to go alone, and he hated being turned down by acquaintances he’d asked to go with him.

>Requests for rent-a-friends at Client Partners are around several tens per month. Most are from young people who are bewildered by the distance they feel from other people, who are anxious, and who have lost their confidence. Abe Maki (37), a representative from the company, said:’These people don’t have any strong sense of self-worth, so they take more care than is necessary of how others judge them. Still, more often than not, they have a lot of online friends. That’s because online they have one-directional communication with people, where they don’t need to the other person to think well of them’.

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[Anonymous No.]

another grate post my friend :DDD

[Anonymous No.]

today me 'n me mates ripped a brown sprayer in that old jannie's face

this is the good life, mum. me cockles feel right warmed and jolly.

love, shiteposter

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>yfw /jp/ers eaten lunch in bathrooms during high school

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>>10476262,1

Ew...no. Outside away from everyone.

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>>10476262,1
I lived a couple of blocks away from the school so I just went home for lunch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10476262,1
I ate in the IT lab (we called it ICT back then) because the teacher was a paedophile and fancied me.