sooshoku Grass-eaters

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Grass-eaters and meat eaters


sooshoku otoko 草食男子 "men who eat grass" (vegetables)
grass eaters, as opposed to meat eaters

nikushoku onna 肉食女 "meat-eating girls"

sooshoku is a word used for herbivorous animals, sooshoku doobutsu 草食動物.





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"'I am a grass-eater,' an in-vogue expression for a person who avoids stress, controls risk and grazes contentedly in home pastures.

Once a voracious consumer of American higher education, Japan is becoming a nation of grass-eaters. Undergraduate enrollment in U.S. universities has fallen 52 percent since 2000; graduate enrollment has dropped 27 percent.

It is a steep, sustained and potentially harmful decline for an export-dependent nation that is losing global market share to its highly competitive Asian neighbors, whose students are stampeding into American schools."





New Type of Metrosexual Men

Japan's 'grass eaters' turn their backs on macho ways


Japanese youngsters are crazy about categorizing themselves into
“grass-eaters” (not-agressive in attracting the opposite sex) and
“meat-eaters” (agressive in attracting the opposite sex).


Reference : Grass-eaters of Japan


and then there are the

“meat-eating girls”


sooshoku-kei otoko 草食系男子



source . nikkeibp.co.jp


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