In contrast, life in the Terrace House often progresses at a snail’s pace. Even when the concept of strangers living together in a house may remind viewers of The Real World and Big Brother, Terrace House is void of offensive elements which the former have been criticised for, such as the glamorisation of casual sex and excessive drinking.
In addition to the lack of rules, the show is also characterised by an absence of competitive elements, cash prizes and elimination, distinguishing it from the typical reality television experience. There are no particular rules to abide by. House sharing typically lasts around 3 months for each participant. Participants are provided a house to live in and two cars to utilise. The premise of the show is simple:Ī reality show where a group of 6 “ordinary” young men and women live together under one roof. Three seasons have been produced so far – Boys & Girls in the City (2015 – 2016), Aloha State (2016 – 2017) and the ongoing Opening New Doors (2018 -).
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Following its opening series Boys × Girls Next Door (2012 – 2014), Netflix teamed up with the Japanese network to reboot the show as a Netflix original, propelling it onto the international stage. Terrace House is a Japanese reality television programme produced by Fuji Television. The paper will conclude with the possible social implications of such representations. The paper will then examine three particular episodes from Terrace House where the sexualisation of women is most distinct, and look at how the debate is being played out online. It will first give an overview of Terrace House and analyse its transnational appeal, before going into a brief discussion on gender representation and sexual objectification in Japan. Using Terrace House as an illustration, this paper seeks to analyse the sexual objectification of women on Japanese television. A recent Netflix reality television programme spurred my interest in this topic, as I observed how such objectification is present even in the most innocuous programme. Television, as a mirror of society, is guilty of perpetuating this problem. In Japan, the sexual objectification of women is evidenced in how suggestive images of women and sexual representations are often splashed across billboards, magazines and books in the country.
Sexual objectification occurs when a woman’s body or body parts are singled out and she is viewed primarily as an object of male desire (Szymanski, Moffitt & Carr, 2011).
The sexual objectification of women is a pernicious issue in Japan.
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