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Dec 16 2005 36 Comments

Flatulent fluff

The ubiquitous political polls tell us that President Bush’s reign is far from popular. Similarly, his cohort in Britain is suffering from equally dismal figures. Yet whilst important, such findings are almost inconsequential when compared to the recent discoveries of television programme ‘Trivia no Izumi’.

Dutifully translated and kindly published by What Japan Thinks, the in-depth current affairs show found that a whopping 43% of Japanese husbands had to suffer the indescribable discomfort of hearing their wife break wind in only the first year of marriage.

fart graph

As the pie chart above graphically demonstrates, Japanese ladies appear to simply fart for fun; with nearly half of them practically pumping their way through the first year of marriage. Equally unsettling is that a staggering 29% couldn’t even manage two years without reeling off the odd rasper.

That’s not to say the poll — which interviewed 1000 Japanese husbands — doesn’t offer a slight glimmer of hope though, as a disappointing but still significant 12% of wives never upset their partner by emitting an audible bottom burp.

However rather sadly, the poll didn’t include data on the infamous ‘silent but deadly’ variety of discharge.

Categorized: General

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  1. englishman says

    12/16/2005 at 2:16 pm

    sounds like a load of hot air to me

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  2. Ryan says

    12/16/2005 at 2:35 pm

    I dare say that 12% are not telling the truth with the answer of “never.”

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  3. Seron (Ken) says

    12/16/2005 at 5:00 pm

    Thanks for picking up my post! I see it’s got as far as Boing Boing now. I enjoyed your write-up of it and I’ve added your blog to my BlogLine sub.

    Funnily enough, I was just thinking last weekend I ought to stamp my logo onto my pie charts, but never got round to it, so now I missed my chance of getting my graphics onto B-B. おしいぃ…

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  4. Shiv says

    12/16/2005 at 6:53 pm

    I do it all the time!

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  5. Xam says

    12/16/2005 at 8:08 pm

    My mom always told me that “Girls don’t fart” so the first time I heard one it threw my like into a frantic tailspin.

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  6. jckl says

    12/16/2005 at 8:36 pm

    Actually it is 72% which couldn’t wait two years before letting one loose. You have to add the 29% to the 43% who already did it the first year.

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  7. alf says

    12/16/2005 at 10:25 pm

    This doesn’t include the statistic on how many foreign boyfriends had to suffer through their Japanese girlfriend’s flatulence while standing atop a love hotel bed.

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  8. Wet Panties says

    12/16/2005 at 10:41 pm

    I have a worn and used panty sales site, a very frequent request from customers looking to buy my panties is ‘Can I fart in them first’..

    Donna

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  9. JJ says

    12/16/2005 at 11:08 pm

    Wait, so what’s wrong with farting?

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  10. Scroot says

    12/16/2005 at 11:16 pm

    How long do they wait before shitting on their husbands faces?

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  11. TCC says

    12/17/2005 at 1:04 am

    Mine wanted to be in the 12% group for sure, but farts in her sleep.

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  12. Bruce says

    12/17/2005 at 4:01 am

    I’m grateful that they took the time to investigate this. The unanswered questions concerning Japanese wife farting has been like a monkey on my back for years.

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  13. Rob says

    12/17/2005 at 9:16 am

    FYI

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  14. Shay says

    12/17/2005 at 9:26 am

    This is funny and quite suprising with how long it took. 😛

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  15. Adamu says

    12/17/2005 at 9:47 pm

    My (Japanese) fiance, for her part, seems to find it liberating to fart in front of her husband-to-be. Oh, that and she laughs her ASS off every time she does it.

    At the same time, my (White American) mom did the same thing ever since I could remember. They got separated after about 25 years of marriage.

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  16. Eric at Paris Daily Photo says

    12/19/2005 at 2:39 pm

    This is incredible…I’ll have to look to see if there’s anything about French women here!

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  17. Melina says

    12/20/2005 at 3:56 am

    OMG!…the Ad for Google above, when I began this comment, is a link to “Dog Fart”, “Proven Natural Remedy For Cats And Dogs With Intestinal Gas”. ha x5!

    Well, I’m, um, “relieved” to know that Japanese wives break wind. I thought only us American wives were helpless, hopeless windbags.

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  18. Barb says

    12/20/2005 at 7:14 am

    Farting is awesome!

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  19. Billy-Bob says

    12/20/2005 at 8:42 am

    I dare say 57% lied and only the 43% of the first year spoke the truth.
    Man, woman or child everybody farts!

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  20. johnnie says

    12/20/2005 at 8:48 am

    I can only see two possibilities:
    57% of the Japanese husbands is lying
    or
    57% of the Japanese husbands is deaf

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  21. Eric at Paris Daily Photo says

    12/20/2005 at 3:03 pm

    That’s a good one Johnnie!

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  22. Seron (Ken) says

    12/26/2005 at 9:09 pm

    Hey, even the Korean government is interested in the Japanese Farting Issue, it seems:
    Lookie here!

    Google machine translates this to:

    ‘ The mysterious feeling and physiological actual condition of the woman whom it loves threw away the sesame? ‘

    Program of actual place date 14 day Japanese spikes t.v ‘Spring the of }trivia{‘ huy the statistical data which it limits is collecting an inside topic.

    Question subject the point of view where the wife holds the first fart.

    3 years marriage cold regions 1000 person males who become it did an internet question investigation in the object, but 43% the wife holding the fart inside marriage after 1 year in the frame of mind which is terrible listening (? It did, ‘ confession ‘ it did.

    Listened to the first sound inside 2 years the person inside 29% and 3 years to listen to, Oh! the bay male accomplished to 16%.

    3 years passed yet is reference, ‘ the perseverance core the male who puts the strong wife ‘ 12%.

    Regarding the criticism smallness Japanese culture which sprouts the place where it gets up a big topic from between the United States netizen who has an interest, that Tokyo time of blow su (www.tokyotimes.org) with that search engine reel of blow thu the scull the mote (www.technorati.com) has it surfaced with an issue specially.

    The t.v from time reconciliation initially introduced question investigation result of broadcasting to the Western netizen ‘ the hero ‘ kheyn public opinion (whatjapanthinks.com) with currently stays in 7 yearth Japan.

    The mere child man and woman will be tolerated and even with each other fart sound when, smallness ‘ is not the fact that becomes the couple who matures ‘ with the rain….
    (POP news 2005-12-20 emigration kyu journalist)

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  23. Adam says

    6/22/2006 at 1:33 pm

    Its funny, my japanese girlfriend said( when a girl from japan starts fartin infornt of you means she really loves u) ….. ya ok

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  24. [email protected] says

    11/19/2006 at 6:35 am

    How about those Japanese ladies??

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  25. John Q says

    2/10/2007 at 1:55 pm

    Check out free vids of woman farting here:

    http://johnque.007ihost.com/index.html

    No porn. Just funny vids.

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  26. Marla C says

    8/28/2007 at 6:36 am

    I can’t stop farting! I’m blowing up a storm! I even have names for them–curious fart, tiger fart, snuffled fart, old fart (not to be missed), and look out for the bear fart. Sounds like the real thing.!! Anyone out there interested in buying a recording of them?

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  27. rup says

    4/14/2008 at 10:15 am

    Broat Flooft Booorp Baaarp Pffft….Ahh

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