Male BRAS? Japan has always struck me as very strange, at turns brutally rigid, bullying, and at the same time very faddish. The article paints this behavior

Male BRAS? Japan has always struck me as very strange, at turns brutally rigid, bullying, and at the same time very faddish. The article paints this behavior as a reaction to the salaryman excesses of the post war environment, where the people in their 20s and 30s are withdrawing from commitments and becoming virtual hermits. The comments are fascinating with some likening them to Well's Eloi and others commenting on parallel behavior in Britain.