The Japan Timesさんのインスタグラム写真 - (The Japan TimesInstagram)「Prolonged sitting is linked with an increased risk of insomnia, depression, obesity, cardiovascular problems and death. It has been years since people have been calling sitting the new smoking — but three years into the pandemic, we now collectively have smoker’s cough. Sitter’s bum, if you will. Japan sits a lot. A 2011 paper published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that in a survey of more than 49,000 adults from 20 countries, it was respondents from Japan and Saudi Arabia who spent the most time sitting, with a weighted median of about 420 minutes per weekday. Japan’s relationship with sitting is complicated further by its long history of sitting on the floor. Japanese culture maintains a “correct” way of sitting, called "seiza," whose intense stress on the ankles and knees are integral to the practices of traditional arts like kendo, "ikebana" (flower arrangement) and "sadō" (tea ceremony). There are also health influencers who attribute floor-sitting and the lifestyle it promotes to be key to Japan’s incredibly long life expectancy. But is there a right way to sit? And has Japan figured it out? It turns out to be a far more complex question; the story of sitting in Japan is a microcosm for the problems of rapid modernization and spans hundreds of years of culture, politics and even religion. Read more with the link in our bio. 📸: @yuliasko.ph #japan #tokyo #health #wellness #news #japantimes #日本 #東京 #健康 #ニュース #正座 #ジャパンタイムズ #🧘🏻‍♀️」11月21日 17時01分