Have you ever walked into a bookstore and immediately needed to poop? 你是否曾經走進書店、就隨即需要去上大號呢？
In 1985, in the 40th volume of the magazine Book, the editor published a letter from a woman in Tokyo. She wrote that (C)every time she walked into a bookstore, she would feel the urge to use the restroom. After the letter was published, many readers (D)responded by saying they shared similar experiences. There was so much interest in the topic that several more articles were written about it. Today, the urge to poop when one looks around a bookstore has become known as the Mariko Aoki Phenomenon, which was named after the writer of the (B)original letter.
This wasn’t the first time feeling the urge to poop in a bookstore was mentioned in print, but it was the first time with a name (A)attached to it. Mariko Aoki was interviewed many times afterwards and didn’t mind that this phenomenon was named after her. In the 1990s and 2000s, (C)word continued to spread about this phenomenon, and it was even studied. Unfortunately, no definite answer has been found for why this happens, even though millions of people, mostly in Japan, have said it has happened to them.
