Japan Has Hipsters Too
Japan has their own brand of hipsters: Geeks.
On streets once packed with housewives or couples shopping for refrigerators and microwave ovens, hundreds of thousands of nerds -- mostly men between about 18 and 45 -- now wander through the area's multi-story comic warehouses and elaborate game arcades.
Is this Tokyo or Brooklyn?
Otaku behavior is also being blamed, along with social disillusionment following Japan's protracted recession, for the increasing numbers of Japanese youth who have no apparent career ambitions. Instead, many are choosing to work part time -- or not at all -- so they can spend most of their time pursuing their hobbies.
Like we said, Hipsters.
On streets once packed with housewives or couples shopping for refrigerators and microwave ovens, hundreds of thousands of nerds -- mostly men between about 18 and 45 -- now wander through the area's multi-story comic warehouses and elaborate game arcades.
Is this Tokyo or Brooklyn?
Otaku behavior is also being blamed, along with social disillusionment following Japan's protracted recession, for the increasing numbers of Japanese youth who have no apparent career ambitions. Instead, many are choosing to work part time -- or not at all -- so they can spend most of their time pursuing their hobbies.
Like we said, Hipsters.
2 Comments:
OMG FUCK! After abandoning Brooklyn and lamenting the hipsterific future of one of my beloved boroughs, I have been shocked to find these unambitious creatures around Boston, as well as in such unlikely locations as Portsmouth, NH and St. John, NB. Given the effective tape delay between Mother America and the perception of coolness throughout the world, I fear it will soon become a de facto requirement for all developing nations to generate subcultures of parent-supported, similarly dressed do-nothingers who all listen to the same goddamn band.
As a native Brooklynite, born and raised, watching it all happen...
I weep.
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