This is Randi Hacker with another Postcard from Asia from the KU Center for East Asian Studies.

You’ve heard of Generation X? Well, meet Generation S. S for single. Here in Japan, there is a big market niche of single twenty- and thirty-somethings. A market niche into which the Infini School of Tokyo fit itself quite neatly, thank you very much. Infini offers classes that promise to turn marriage-challenged men and women into prime spousal material. Instructors offer comments on wardrobe, posture and even the way to cross your legs in the pursuit of a mate. Students can go out on simulated dates that are critiqued by instructors and there is even a class on impressing future in-laws whose approval apparently still counts. All those who believe this service is worth 200,000 yen, say “I do.” You may kiss your money goodbye.

From the Center for East Asian Studies, this is Randi Hacker. Wish you were here.