Posted on 02/04/2009 9:03:33 AM PST by BGHater
In Japan, "What's your type?" is much more than small talk; it can be a paramount question in everything from matchmaking to getting a job.
By type, the Japanese mean blood type, and no amount of scientific debunking can kill a widely held notion that blood tells all.
In the year just ended, four of Japan's top 10 best-sellers were about how blood type determines personality, according to Japan's largest book distributor, Tohan Co. The books' publisher, Bungeisha, says the series — one each for types B, O, A, and AB — has combined sales of well over 5 million copies.
Taku Kabeya, chief editor at Bungeisha, thinks the appeal comes from having one's self-image confirmed; readers discover the definition of their blood type and "It's like 'Yes, that's me!'"
As defined by the books, type As are sensitive perfectionists but overanxious; Type Bs are cheerful but eccentric and selfish; Os are curious, generous but stubborn; and ABs are arty but mysterious and unpredictable.
All that may sound like a horoscope, but the public doesn't seem to care.
Even Prime Minister Taro Aso seems to consider it important enough to reveal in his official profile on the Web. He's an A. His rival, opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa, is a B.
Nowadays blood type features in a Nintendo DS game and on "lucky bags" of women's accessories tailored to blood type and sold at Tokyo's Printemps department store. A TV network is set to broadcast a comedy about women seeking husbands according to blood type.
It doesn't stop there.
Matchmaking agencies provide blood-type compatibility tests, and some companies make decisions about assignments based on employees' blood types.
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I knew there was a reason they refer to my blood type as A+.
They got me pegged right as an O.
What does it say about me?....... B-
This is pretty much my personality...hmmmmmm
AB+ “Arty and mysterious...” Cool!!
But I guess it has the exact same justification as Astrology, i.e. none at all. Also the same M.O. as Astrology, some vague sounding pap that almost anyone would like to have said about them.
No matter what questions they are allowed to ask about personality, no “Astrologer” can correctly guess the “sign” of a person with better than 1/12 accuracy.
You are passing but not on the Dean's List.
AB-
I so can do the mysterious thing. :-)
LOL.....I will try harder
Now I know who to call if I need any.
O’s lazy and laid back
A’s high strung and hard workers
B’s Weird-o’s
AB’s Bipolar
They have condoms for each type over there...I’ve seen them...and furthermore, I kinda believe that blood type does dictate behavior...I used to have an AB girlfriend and she fit the BILL!
Probably the same as it says for me. I am also B-.
I like to think of myself as a positive person.....we don’t really need to B-
What a disappointment that the Japanese still believe in witchcraft.
O Negative.
For a long time, that’s what how I filled in the blank after “sex.”
A+ here. I doubt anyone who knows me would describe me as a perfectionist, overanxious, or particularly sensitive.
Well mine is right- I’m an O.
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