Word: izakaya
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...glances up to see a jumbo TV screen showing middle-aged men in boxer shorts dancing the parapara, a kind of disco line dance. After work, he steps around homeless men at the train station who once had stable jobs like his. If he seeks solace at his favorite izakaya, or pub, he may find ridicule in the form of oyaji gals, young women who get their kicks by dressing in wrinkled men's suits and doing salaryman impressions: swilling beer, belching, picking their teeth. At home, when he kicks back in front of the TV, he's confronted with...
...yufu for a 600-yen set lunch. Of course, basing financial transactions on trust instead of the national currency involves certain risks. If villagers can individually mint hundreds or even thousands of yufu, what's to prevent hyperinflation, with the locals carting wheelbarrows of Monopoly money to the neighborhood izakaya...
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