 §[ユ楽] [英単語訳ふり] 血液型のこと(２)
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Blood type personality analysis appears regularly in Japanese
women's magazines.
Last year alone, more than 50 television shows dwelled on the
～を長々と論じる
subject.
matchmaking agencies offer bloodtype compatibility tests.
結婚仲介業 相性
It is considered perfectly acceptable to ask a person's blood
完全に容認できる
type and make it public.
を公表する
Blood types are listed in Japan's Who's Who in Politics and
『国会要覧』
Government.
Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro is an A, though his permed hair,
in-your-face political style and fondness for pop music hardly
傍若無人な ～が好きなこと ほとんど
fit the accountant stereotype.
当てはまらない 典型
Japanese television recently showed children at the Oi Nursery
保育園
School in Saitama Prefecture, being divided into four groups
according to blood type to compare how they eat snacks, clean
garbage or take off their shoes at the door.
ごみ
The school declined a request for comment.
断る
The theory has been around for decades, but its dark past is
何十年間も存続する
little known.
The discovery of blood types in 1901 was one of the greatest
advances in medical history, but the breakthrough was then
大発見
perverted by the Nazis to claim the superiority of Germans -
悪用する 主張する ～に対する優越(superiority over～)
mostly types A and O - over Jews, Asians and others with a larger
ユダヤ人 ～より多くの
proportion of type B blood.
割合の
The theory reached Japan in a 1927 psychologist's report, and
the militarist government of the time commissioned a study aimed
当時の 命じる
at breeding better soldiers.
養成する
The craze faded in the 1930s as its unscientific basis became
大流行 衰える
evident.
But it was revived in the 1970s with a book by Nomi Masahiko, an
advocate and writer with no medical background.
支持者(後出stand by～ は､ ～を支持する)
About 40 percent of Japanese are type A, 30 percent are O, 20
percent are B and 10 percent are AB.
O's are said to be decisive and curious, while AB's are
決断力のある
supposedly complex and suited for research and art.
～と言われる 複雑な
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