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Most Japanese people do not use this term, and I'm fairly certain most Japanese people don't even really know the word. This is one of those "Big in Japan" things, except, uh, "Big outside Japan".

Source: live in Japan, have asked Japanese people around me if they know about this concept (that is popular in USA). Usually hear: へ〜、全然知らない。

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mcqueenjordan|1 year ago

The topic came up again and maybe this has been changing lately. I downgrade my above comment. I still think that it got popular in the U.S. first and then propagated back to Japan but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.