For the past few years, Japan has been in a fuss about "soshoku danshi," literally translated as "herbivore boys." These are young men who represent the antithesis of the rowdy, skirt-chasing, big-spending corporate man associated with the 1980s bubble economy: they're passive, conservative with money, prefer to stay in instead of going out drinking with coworkers and are generally uninterested in sex. (Japan Today)
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