They make a variety of excellent table top cooking appliances. My wife is Japanese and recommended this rice cooker to me when we started dating. That same rice cooker is still going strong I purchased it in 2006.
I recently was curious about them and did a search to see if there was any newer model or upgrades… still the exact same model and almost the same price is considered one of the best models by multiple reviewers.
That thing is seriously built to last! My wife and I have now named the cooker “Zojirushi sama” as a reward for still making amazing rice 20 years later even after almost daily use.
We also have one of their auto nabe cookers which is going on 15 years old.
I don’t think this is entirely true for the simple fact that my routine was to wake up at 6:30 am and go to bed at 10pm everyday for school from the ages of 5 to 18. In that time there was never a morning that I didn’t absolutely hate waking up that early.
Some people’s biological clocks simply run later than others. For example, I now wake up at 10 am and sleep usually around 3 am, and feel fantastic.