Japanese universities increase number of solitary seats in cafeterias

Title: Japanese graduates at recruitment fair 

"Psychologists are fretting about the increasing number of universities that set up bocchi seki in their cafeterias—seats for solitary students who “don’t want to share tables with other people and feel self-conscious about others’ gaze when they eat.”

Source: Telephone lines, Yamanote train redesign, bad lieutenants and more

By: Steve Trautlein 

 Jul 3, 2014 

|Issue: 1058 

http://metropolis.co.jp/features/the-small-print/july-3-2014/