'Honwaka': relief for tired Japanese OLs

[Taro Toporific]

This writer has published a Rorschach Test of her thoughts.
'Iyashi': relief for tired Japanese salarywomen
The Japan Times: Feb. 12, 2004
It's widely assumed that whatever their station in life, most Japanese women over the age of 24 are tsukarete iru (tired). This has less to do with modern living than something ingrained in the Japanese tradition that tires women out before their time -- namely, the emphasis on shigoto (work)..... nowadays women are looking for the honwaka (warm and fuzzy) type, or as my girlfriend Megumi likes to say: makura ni nattekureru hito (someone you can curl up against like a pillow). It's no coincidence that overweight men are enjoying a popularity unprecedented in the past five decades. ....

[GargoyleTS]

Aww man! And me without airfare! Oh well, hope this trend is still in effect after I graduate (yeah right. The only culture to suffer social ADD)

[Captain Japan]

This writer has published a Rorschach Test of her thoughts.

I don't know, Taro, I thought it was a massive heap of shit.

Other iyashi phrases include hono-bono (warm and glowing), honya-honya (soft), funwari (fluffy) and the more advanced powan (warm, hazy and insubstantial). The key sensation here is warmth, no doubt because many Japanese women are plagued by hiyesho (chilling).

Quick! Quick! The vomit emoticon...

[Taro Toporific]

"]Other iyashi phrases include hono-bono (warm and glowing), honya-honya (soft), funwari (fluffy) and the more advanced powan (warm, hazy and insubstantial). The key sensation here is warmth, no doubt because many Japanese women are plagued by hiyesho (chilling).

Ah yes the mysterious "plague" of psychosomatic " hiyesho (chilling)"

[Gestalt]

The key sensation here is warmth, no doubt because many Japanese women are plagued by hiyesho (chilling).

Tell me about it. All the women in my office keep blankets in their desk drawers and when it gets even a little bit cold they get them out and put them over their knees!