Trending: Japanese women now looking for “young, fresh faced and ripped” men
- Published: 17 Oct 2012 at 13.35
- Online news: World
The ideal guy for the modern Japanese woman is “young, fresh faced and rippedn” reported Japan Times last week.
Japanese women now prefer ‘nikushokukei danshi’, or carnivorous men in Japanese, as opposed to the ‘soshokukei danshi’, or ‘herbivorous men’, a term popularized in 2008 for an emerging breed of gentle and passive Japanese men.
The trend gained momentum in August when a photo book called Sagawa Danshi, featuring 51 young delivery men, sold out, going into its second print run within two weeks.
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