source : japanprobe.com
The TV Tokyo program that introduced the foreigner learning traditional Japanese manliness from an ouendan also contained a brief segment on how Japanese men sit down at toilets to urinate instead of peeing from a standing position. In 1999, only 15% of Japanese men claimed they sit down to urinate. By 2007, almost half of the male population were answering that they sit down to pee!
The panelists on the TV show lamented this change as a sign of how manly Japanese men are becoming a rarity. An increased percentage of single men living with their parents and a higher rate of saving income were also cited as examples of increases in unmanliness.
I have posted about this issue in the past, but this video is a bit different. The 2007 Fuji TV program blamed wives for the change, while this TV Tokyo program blamed mothers. Apparently the trauma of being scolded as a child has made many men unable to assume a standing position before toilets.
source : japanprobe.com
edoh : trauma? unmanliness? They come up with anything to cover up the fact that they're either 1. getting lazy, or 2. actually pooping more at the same time they pee and therefore making it a need to sit down.
oh, and maybe
3. actually being able to concentrate on DS and PSP games in the privacy of the bathroom.
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