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Alternative medicine. Shiatsu ( / ʃiˈæts -, - ˈɑːtsuː / shee-AT-, -AHT-soo; [ 1] 指圧) is a form of Japanese bodywork based on concepts in traditional Chinese medicine such as qi meridians. Having been popularized in the twentieth century by Tokujiro Namikoshi (1905–2000), [ 2] shiatsu derives from the older Japanese massage ...
There is continuing debate about the role women's education plays in Japan's declining birthrate. [ 66] Japan's total fertility rate is 1.4 children born per woman (2015 estimate), [ 67] which is below the replacement rate of 2.1. Japanese women have their first child at an average age of 30.3 (2012 estimate).
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Pinterest is an American social media service for publishing and discovery of information [6] in the form of pinboards. [7] This includes recipes, home, style, motivation, and inspiration on the Internet using image sharing. [8] Pinterest, Inc. was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp, [5] and is headquartered in San ...
Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
A host club (ホストクラブ, hosuto kurabu) has female customers pay for male company. Host clubs are typically found in more populated areas of Japan, and are numerous in Tokyo districts such as Kabukichō, and Osaka 's Umeda and Namba. Customers are typically wives of rich men, women working as hostesses in hostess clubs, or sex workers.
A man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who had lost his ability to speak has been able to communicate with a Blackrock Neurotech text-to-speech brain implant, researchers said in one of ...
ASMR. An autonomous sensory meridian response ( ASMR) [ 2][ 3][ 4] is a tingling sensation that usually begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. A pleasant form of paresthesia, [ 5] it has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia [ 6][ 7] and may overlap with frisson. [ 8]