The Meaning of Nakayoshi for the Japanese Teenagers

Abstract

Every single person in this world certainly needs others to live a life. Whatever the
activity done, surely it needs others because people are social beings. Through others' role,
the desires to have an emotional closeness or relationship to others come up, one of them is
friendship. The friendship comes up because there is a desire which shows that every person
will need each other in friendship. A friendship nowadays cannot be separated from
teenagers' life. Usually, the friendship bond has been begun since childhood or adolescence
and it keeps being long last until they become old, likewise for the Japanese teenagers.
Psychology is a study that learns about the open and close behaviour toward the
human as the individual and community, in relation to the environment. The teenager
psychology is a study that learns about how teenagers in their life either individual or social
life. Here, the theory of teenager's psychology is a theory which discusses the study of
teenager itself. (Muhibbin Syah: 2001).
The type of the research was descriptive qualitative by describing the term and
meaning of Tomodachi and Nakayoshi. The technique of data collecting was conducted by
library research and questionnaire. It was done by spreading the questionnaire to the
respondents. The technique of data analyzing was descriptively done by (a) explaining, (b)
analyzing, and (c) clarifying the data obtained.
Based on the data analysis result and discussion, it was found the meaning of
nakayoshi in the Japanese teenagers' life which totally have a great influence in the daily life
that is as a place to share emotions, either happiness or sadness emotions. If the teen-agers do
not have nakayoshi in their life, they will as if live a flavourless and monotonous life.
Keywords: Friend, Best-friend, Teenagers, tomodachi and nakayoshi