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Short Stuff: Mariko Aoki Phenomenon

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Society & Culture

4.676.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Ten percent of people – in Japan at least – get the urge to poop when they visit bookstores. But it wasn’t until a courageous woman stepped up and became the voice of the phenomenon now named after her that they realized they were part of a movement.

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0:43.0

That's right, I'm glad that you found this because I have experienced this in a slightly different way and I never knew that it was a thing and now I do.

0:51.0

Yeah, I had no idea it was the thing either. I don't remember where I heard of this.

0:55.0

I'm guessing Yumi, it just seems like the kind of thing she would have sent me, but we have to

0:59.6

shout out McGill University IFL Science and Science Times for helping around this idea

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hour, the story out, but we're talking about something called the Mariko Aoki

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phenomenon which is a very specific phenomenon. It's where some people go into a bookstore

1:16.5

and are overwhelmed with the urge, sometimes an urgent urge, to poop in that bookstore. Not like in the aisles of the bookstore but to go to the

1:25.6

bathroom in the bookstore to poop.

1:28.0

Yeah so here's my story in high school in high school my still one of my very best friends Jim I say you

1:36.8

know Jim Jim and I had a afternoon radio show which was over the intercom of the school and it was basically

1:45.5

instead of the principal reading the daily announcements we asked if we could

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