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Japan's amazing lunchboxes.

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I was listening. And when the reporter was looking at the hello kitty and polar bear. The kids were saying "what are you doing?"

I laughed so hard

Yes I'm Japanese. My mom used to make bento(aka lunches) like that
 
Nintendesert said:
No wonder the Japanese are going extinct, it's too much damn effort to just feed a little kid over there. I'd stick to my tentacle porn too if I were them.
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There is perhaps some truth to this. I have one child, and am working over my wife for the second. If a second child meant getting up earlier to make another bento box, I'd lose that war. Population--

The Japanese people are slowly going extinct. Their population is projected to shrink by 1/3 over the next 40 years, and they'll go so crazy caring for all the old people another 1/3 will probably off themselves.
 
Train said:
Ironically, USA is #3, Japan is #2, as far as who works the most hours.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lab_hou_wor-labor-hours-worked
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Just FYI, but the figures cited in your link indicate that the average American has just over 7 weeks of vacation each year.

1,792 hours divided by 40-hour weeks comes out to a total of only 44.8 weeks per year. Something seems off there and I'm thinking that the link you're citing includes a LOT of young, unmarried people who are only working part-time.

Also, it's important to note that the link you're citing only compares the hours of people who are actually working; it doesn't take into account the prevalence (or lack thereof) of families in which one parent stays at home. Culturally, Japanese women are far more likely than American women to leave the workforce (and therefore remove themselves from the calculations in the link you cite) when they marry. Japanese mothers are much more likely to be "stay-at-home" mothers and have more time available to dedicate to their children than American mothers (or Western mothers in general).

In short, while I agree that the "average" Japanese worker puts in more hours than the "average" American worker, the average Japanese mother almost certainly works far fewer hours than the average American mother.

ZV
 
GrumpyMan said:
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This is the typical lunch I pack for my kids.
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Where's the Hollandaise sauce?
 
Japan does everything better, including math, robots, cartoons and vending machines. All we have is the NFL lol.
 
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I have this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ten_cho/7167767619/in/pool-93853786@N00/

Great for when you aren't into making everything look good, but need to separate the food (not shown: it also has a sealed dip/sauce/pickle container that takes up about 1/5 of the top section).

Not cheap, but you can pack in whatever, and it's easy to take apart and clean thoroughly in almost no time. So, it's possible to be applying some deodorant, think, "oh, ****, I forgot," and still clean it, cram in some leftovers, and no have to eat lunch out 🙂. IMO, it's worth it just for that.

waggy said:
I know. how selfish of me for not flying to Japan to take the class on how to make sushi in the shape of nemo.
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Blogs and youtube: no need to fly to Japan.
 
Women with kids in Japan have more time to make these lunches since they rarely work. Pretty simple concept I think.
 
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