If you frequent Japanese social media, you may have encountered a slang expression with a bittersweet meaning: bocchi ...

If you frequent Japanese social media, you may have encountered a slang expression with a bittersweet meaning: bocchi (aloneness). You can find the word in expressions like bocchi nomi (drinking alone ...

Japan widely allows bocchi culture, which simply means living and eating alone. Some restaurants in the country are even designed for eating in silence. There are even various forms of entertainment ...

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