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  • Terms often heard nowadays include soshoku-kei danshi ("herbivorous" boys) or ojoman (girlie men).

    Archive 2009-01-01 Edstock 2009

  • Coined by columnist Maki Fukasawa, the term soshoku-danshi herbivorous male has become one of those cultural buzzwords that hijacks the Japanese media every couple of years.

    "Grass-eaters" in Japan Doctor Science 2009

  • Terms often heard nowadays include soshoku-kei danshi ("herbivorous" boys) or ojoman (girlie men).

    First I bring you radio, now TV the rev. paperboy 2009

  • In reference to the Bancho [u]: the stories outlined in the present volume date from the period of the puppet shows and strolling reciters, men who cast these tales into their present lines, thus reducing popular tradition to the form in which it could be used by the _ko [u] danshi_ or lecturers on history, or by those diving into the old tales and scandals connected with the _yashiki_ of Edo town.

    Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

  • Furthermore, the paragraph ended with a bang, noting that workers are even packing their own lunches, sparking the nickname bento-danshi, or "box-lunch man".

    Sourcing Innovation the doctor 2010

  • He is a soshokukei danshi - herbivorous boy - a term coined two years ago by the commentator Maki Fukasawa to describe the proliferation of men who, in appearance and attitude, bear little resemblance to the two dominant Japanese male groups of the past century: soldiers and their peacetime offspring, corporate warriors.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • The trend may also be a reaction to the recent emergence of a tribe known as soshokukei danshi or "herbivorous men" who are gentle, foppish, unaggressive and not interested in traditional masculine pursuits such as fast cars, drinking - and women.

    News On Japan 2009

  • The trend may also be a reaction to the recent emergence of a tribe known as soshokukei danshi or "herbivorous men" who are gentle, foppish, unaggressive and not interested in traditional masculine pursuits such as fast cars, drinking - and women.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Meant to post on this later but in my yesterday hurry of busy, mistakenly published a brief memo and link for about 15 minutes before I realized it, unpublished but then got an appreciative note from Lisa who saw it on her RSS feed, so I'm putting it back up here unfinished just with the link, too busy at the moment to get satisfactorily back to this subject of "grass-eating/herbivore men" (soushoku danshi) and do it enough justice a la moi, in re some other perspectives I have on the matter that have been blending in my head, and other earlier related but untagged posts I have to search for rush rush rush so for the moment this is it ...

    PureLandMountain.com 2009

  • Yanagi no eda ni sakashite zo min. _] [Footnote 19: Momogawa Jo [u] en: _ko [u] danshi_ differ in their treatment of such detail.

    Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

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