37 % der Männer in Japan in den Fünfzigern haben „null Freunde“ – „Es gibt eine Ästhetik, die besagt, dass es cooler ist, niemanden zu haben, dem man sich anvertrauen kann.“

We’re doomed aren’t we

Social isolation while wearing sunglasses.

Sounds like some copium

Maybe that’s why buchos spend so much time drinking with underlings…

Any friends you made during your school year will fade away once you graduate from university and start looking for job as an adult. Then if all goes well and you work for few years, you marry. Once you marry, family responsibility will take the greatest time aside from work. You have kid. You have to work harder to support raising kid. You look for home to raise your family. It will be far away in suburb to be affordable. You travel in train daily for hours plus. You gain more responsibility at work and some may end up transferred to distant subsidiary which mean you will be alone for the duration of transfer. Work, work, work. No time to keep touch with your friends. You are alone because family will be distant and friends you had have forgotten you.

That’s the scenario I envisioned if you’re typcial Japanese salaryman.

This phenomena is playing out in a lot of countries, and is going to get worse.

I will soon be one of them.

I’m in my 50s, American dude in far west Tokyo. Anyone want to be friends?

Getting depression for the aesthetic huh? Not sure if I should respect it or be slightly disgusted by it lol