[TigerLikesRooster]

So these women had enough of metrosexuals, which have been a rage for 20(?) years.

I am not sure if they really want such men in real life instead of fictional fantasy.

About 4 decades ago, there was such a man, Mishima Yukio. Embodyment of pro- militarist Japanese samurai, who believed Bushido is the essence of Japanese soul. Actually, he was a renowned novelist. He went in SDF headquarter and took the commander in hostage, and exhort soldiers to join him, but was rebuffed. In frustration, he committed Sepuku(being beheaded by his lieutenant while slicing his stomach open.) What do these women feel about him? If they like him as well, China should worry.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[BobL]

They’re human.

(unlike the metros running the schools)

[Clemenza]

Mishima was a homosexual, even though he was married to a woman. His “bodyguards” were actually his lovers/groupies.

[VOA]

girls love bad boys....BUMP

[DTogo]

I don't think this has anything to do with a yearning to go forth and brutally re-conquer Japan's Asian neighbors. Especially when compared to China's rhetoric on Taiwan or North Korea's on their southern brothers.

What's also missing is that off screen, the male TV stars of these samurai dramas are likely the same "gentle, foppish, unaggressive" males the rekijo now claim to shun.

日本＊ピング＊ (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)

[Pontiac]

The trend may also be a reaction to the recent emergence of a tribe known as soshokukei danshi or “herbivorous men” who are gentle, foppish, unaggressive and not interested in traditional masculine pursuits such as fast cars, drinking — and women.

Eri Kohinata, 22, believes that young women like the discipline, sense of duty — and rippling, armour-clad torsos — of men of the feudal age. “Men these days are wimps, but men in history are courageous and manly,” she said.

Men will try to be what ever works to get a woman to drop her panties.

If the odds of achieving that goal is in being a soldier men will start joining the ranks in greater numbers.

This could be a favorable trend.

[Last Dakotan]

The Chinese didn't much care for the last wave of Japanese "tough gys".

[1776 Reborn]

Modern women raise their boys to be effeminate than they wish for real men? Ah, you reap what you sow.......

[vladimir998]

He was gay though. To say he was a complicated figure would be an incredible understatement.

[Dead Dog]

..one week in Japan is enough to see that they are a very industrious and intelligent people..with no frontier. Men eventually provide what they think women desire.

[ReneeLynn]

I’ve had a crush on Toshiro Mifune for years. Too bad he’s dead. Great actor and physically up to the Samurai roles he portrayed.

I’ve wondered what was up with these girly men the Japanese seem to adore in their films and music. But, ugh, I don’t think these women would really prefer the thugs from history. It’s the idea of a strong man that they want.

[John Will]

Can't help it. Brutal

[Knitting A Conundrum]

My personal fav to date is Takeda Shingen. Mishima was...odd.

[heartwood]

Mishima wrote a love story called Patriotism. A young lieutenant is honor-bound to commit seppuku, and trusts his wife to witness his death and kill herself afterward, instead of killing her first because of her womanly weakness.

It's all sensuality and trembling, like a virgin going to her marriage bed.

So maybe they would find it romantic.

[gaijin]

The really funny thing about Yukio Mishima is that he was also a homosexual. I’m serious. The guy who cut off his head with a sword was in his military group —a student from Waseda University (who later became an eccentric artist with legal troubles).

So his lover guy was obviously kind of nervous about cutting off sensei’s head, ya know?

In fact, this first lover student bungled the job, and another of his buddies (who was an active Kendo guy, and not his lover) cut his head off in one whack.

Mishima was married, and did have kids, however.

[B-Chan]

This is the secret behind the success of White-Asian marriages. Asian women are like white women used to be; white men are like Asian men used to be. It’s a natural match.

I’ve been happily married to a wonderful blue-eyed blonde for seventeen years, but I’d never advise a friend to marry an American woman. I got lucky.

[Oztrich Boy]

I dunno. [palm downwards, hand on hip, big buttons] kinda gay if you ask me.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Escapism.

Mental escapism from reality.

[SySnootles]

I’ve got to admit it; I love the look of “bishonen” Asian men. The smooth skin and youthful, almost feline appearance. I have a picture of Goro Inagaki on my computer desktop. Does that make me gender-confused? Perhaps, but life goes on.