{"id":6978,"date":"2021-07-30T01:46:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T01:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=6978"},"modified":"2021-07-30T01:46:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T01:46:40","slug":"what-a-little-sweet-snoozing-can-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/what-a-little-sweet-snoozing-can-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Little Sweet Snoozing Can Tell You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inemuri (\u5c45\u7720\u308a), snoozing, is one of the Japanese cultural traits.\u00a0 Students fall asleep in class. People snooze on a train.\u00a0 Members of the Diet (\u56fd\u4f1a\u8b70\u54e1 kokkai giin) snooze during a session.\u00a0 Local assembly members (\u5730\u65b9\u8b70\u54e1 chihou giin) snooze during an assembly meeting. Wikipedia refers to it as \u201ca custom that is notably seen in Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Inemuri is often witnessed in the Japanese parliament and local assembly meetings.\u00a0 Some Japanese TV crews routinely film snoozing assembly members during a session and show the video on TV news. It is pretty popular among viewers, and you would think assembly members all over Japan have learned that there could be a TV camera in the meeting and would try very hard not to snooze.<\/p>\n

When they are confronted (\u7a81\u304d\u3064\u3051\u308b tsukitsukeru) with the video of them snoozing during the meeting, they always say \u201cNo, I was not snoozing.\u00a0 I was just closing my eyes.\u201d Here is one video that was broadcast on March 30, 2021. It was taken in Ibaragi Prefecture Assembly.\u00a0 As you can see, most of them are older males, and they have been assembly members for years.<\/p>\n