Japan's smashing stress reliever
Updated on 22 December 2008
Stressed Japanese salarymen have found a smashing way to let off steam.
For a few yen, people in Tokyo can duck into a mobile booth called "The Venting Place" to take out their frustration on a pile of crockery.
Katsuya Hara, the head of the stress-busting project, says dish-smashing is a proven scientific therapy that is slowly gaining recognition around the world.
He said: "To break something, as all of us know from experience, is something extremely exhilarating and it helps bring down one's pent up anger levels."
Hara said the majority of his customers are business men and women who are sick of their jobs and the financial crisis.
He added: "We hope to become the new way businessmen relieve their stress, part and parcel with drinking, singing and now hopefully smashing dishes."
The broken shards are gathered up and recycled into new cups, dishes and plates.
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