A rare study of the vale of self-denigrating humor in Japan: “The value of constructing relationships through self-denigrating humor and regional-cultural differences in Japan: A focus on blunder-telling behavior,” Sora Niwa and Shun’ichi Maruno, Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, 3(2), 2009, 133-154. Here is a sampling of questions used in the research:
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Dr. Nakamats, ultra-prolific inventor
Motherboard produced this eight-minute-long documentary of Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats. Dr. Nakamats, an inventor for whom the word “prolific” seems almost to be insufficient, was awarded the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize in nutrition for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting)..