The term rekijo, or “history girls”, is used in the Japanese media to describe women from their late teens to mid twenties are styling themselves on a bygone era and taking a renewed interest in history.
Historical sites and re-enactments are becoming increasingly popular with the women eager to capture a sense of their country’s past.
歷史景點(diǎn)以及歷史事件重現活動(dòng)正逐漸受到這些有意重拾本國歷史的女性追捧。
The interest may be a backlash to the emergence of a group called “herbivorous men” who are gentle, foppish and unaggressive, prompting some young women to seek out at least the notion of the historical equivalent of the traditional male action hero.