Expecting only female coworkers to make coffee, insisting that drinks after work are mandatory and chain smoking on the bus ¡ª things that were ¡°acceptable¡± in the past ¡ª will no longer fly.
Or at least that¡¯s what organizers of a contest for Japan¡¯s buzzword of the year declared with its crowning of ¡°futehodo¡± ¡ª a nickname for a 911±¬ÁÏÍø TV drama that depicts the generational gap between two eras ¡ª as the most trending word of 2024.
¡°Futekisetsu nimo hodo ga aru!¡± (¡°Extremely Inappropriate!¡±), a drama that revolves around a middle-aged high school teacher and father from the Showa Era (1926-1989) time-traveling to the current Reiwa Era (2019-present), explores the tension between the norms and expectations of the past and present.
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