Word: furyo
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...another, their income cobbled from their parents' handouts and minimum-wage jobs. Employment for life? These kids don't think much past tonight's handful of mushrooms. These are the latest incarnation of the people Japanese mothers used to warn their kids about, the types known pejoratively as furyo, good-for-nothings, or asobi-nin, partyers, who would never get jobs in big companies and would never wear business suits. Their lifestyle, in short, is perfectly suited to the laid-back ethic embodied by freewheeling psychedelia. "It's the result of affluence," says Mariko Fujiwara, director of research at Tokyo...
...Japanese have even coined a word for the problem: engai. meaning monkey pollution. "These apes are just like furyo [juvenile delinquents]," says Kunihiko Shirai of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. "Like the human furyo, they're creating trouble in many rural communities...
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