Ready, set, snooze: Sleep-deprived Japanese compete for best-rested
Dozens of self-described competitive sleepers used tracking devices on mattresses as Koala Sleep Japan promoted sleep awareness and a prize of over two million yen.
- On Monday, dozens of participants gathered in Tokyo for the "Matt Race," a sleep competition organized by Koala Sleep Japan offering a top prize of over two million yen .
- OECD data from 2021 shows Japanese people slept an average 7hr 24min daily, the least among OECD nations. Riichiro Nakama, creative director at Koala Sleep Japan, noted "Japan is often described as a country suffering from sleep deprivation."
- Participants were fitted with sleep tracking devices and monitored for up to 90 minutes sprawled on mattresses. Judges selected winners based on how quickly and soundly each individual slept.
- Contest winner Suimii plans to use prize money for moving costs and "a bed like a princess." Participant Chisato Honda, 32, called it "a happy competition," adding he wished he could have slept longer.
- Nakama aims to raise interest in sleep by turning rest into a public event, engaging self-described elite "competitive sleepers" in a society often described as exhausted and diligent.
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An interesting event was held in Japan, one of the countries with the highest rate of insomnia. Dozens of people entered into an uphill battle to fall asleep the fastest and deepest. The winner of the 90-minute contest was a woman who went by the nickname “Suimii”. Sleeping with your opponents
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cyprustimes.comDozens of participants lay down for 90 minutes in mattresses, with sensors measuring how quickly they fell asleep and how well they slept
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In Japan, an unusual competition called "Matt Race" crowned on Monday in Tokyo a fastest and deepest sleeping winner, who won more than 11,000 euros.
Ready, set, snooze: Sleep-deprived Japanese compete for best-rested
The Tokyo competition, dubbed "Matt Race", saw dozens of participants fitted with sleep tracking devices sprawl on comfy mattresses to slumber for up to 90 minutes Monday, competing for the top prize of over two million yen ($14,000). "Japan is often described as a country suffering from sleep deprivation, and people here are very diligent," Riichiro Nakama, creative director at organiser Koala Sleep Japan, the mattress company. Inside a dimly …
In a hardworking and sleepy Japan, self-proclaimed "competition sleepers" fought in a discipline where to win, it was enough to lie down, relax and fall into Morpheus' arms as quickly as possible.
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