Why Japan Developed Tomogachi While We Sat and Watched Baseball Games.

Why Japan Developed Tomogachi While We Sat and Watched Baseball Games.

While you’re worrying about how to snatch a hot date, they were studying Biology. While you’re trying pathetically to win back the heart of your haughty boyfriend or bratty girlfriend, they were cramming for their college entrance exams. While you’re going through your relationships like a fat man goes through bags of chips, they’re studying to become engineers. While you’re waiting for your phone call from the unemployment office at your parents’ house, they’ve already developed a space age thing of some sort. Who are they? They’re the Japanese. You might wonder how could they achieve to become that status. The solution might bonk you on the head like a thing that bonks…your head.

SEX. Actually, the lack thereof in this case, made such achievement possible. This discipline of extreme abstinence allows the Japanese to focus on the goal. This is why the Japanese are way better when it comes to brand spanking new technologies, while we sit with our hands folded on our lap, waiting for them to import the English version. To better understand this phenomenon, we must look at a typical academic career of both an American and a Japanese student. Let’s “root” for the home team first.

American: The change starts to get noticeable during middle school, when hormones are raging wildly like a wild fire that rages through the forest. At this time, an average American student would have had at least one “relationship” under his or her belt. It is at this time when he seeks more opportunities to “go on dates” and “have a hot girl/guy by his/her side”. Meanwhile, grades go down, books are neglected, and minds are rotting. The symptom gets worst during high school, where “getting’ some” is on top of the list while “getting’ A’s” and “getting non-sexually related things” are dead last if they are even mentioned. College: Sex, booze, party, sex, sex.

Japanese: Don’t get me wrong, they get these feelings also, but are too busy fending off bombardments of homework, demanding extra-curricular activities, and immensely pressured cram schools to even fucking touch themselves! (Pause to get the disturbing images out of my head…) The fact is, after entering the equivalent of middle school, you’re a non-stop working machine. It is only after college that they’re allowed to begin thinking about dating. It’s the traditions of Japan. Which coincidentally coincides with their school system. Basically, the whole side on their part practices such discipline, but Japan stands out more.

So there you have it. The next time when you’re playing Japanese-made games while living out of your parents’ garage, just think of those times you could have hit the books instead of ogling at boobies… … …I’m sorry, what were we talking about again?