Many if not most Japanese people think that’s normal. The people I feel sorry for are those who thought their Japanese lover was different, but then saw a radical change after marriage.
- This paragraph refers to the moment when your date takes place live.
- The only issue that frequently comes up that I’m okay with is the „stay at home wife” concept.
- And, as The_True correctly points out above, in many cases it will be her girlfriends who are „advising” her to be like that.
- Instead, it seems that a combination of other factors played the decisive role.
Most people do not take these things into consideration. Religion never played a part, since neither of us believe in a “God”. I don’t like Japanese food, but I didn’t marry her for the food, or her culture. Dear Japan Today – I’d like to see what kind of things people say if the topic is about happy marriage/relationship with J-women..
After class, the women ordered tea and sandwiches at a restaurant a few floors down. Ms. Shirota pulled out her phone to show pictures of her summer trip to Ireland. One classmate, a married mother of three teenagers, reminisced about a family trip there years earlier, lamenting how she had not returned because of the prohibitive cost of airline tickets for a family of five. Local governments, eager to encourage marriage and raise fertility, have started campaigns to bring couples together. “We are working on fostering a mind for marriage,” reads an ad for matchmaking tours and seminars for singles sponsored by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Not surprisingly, the number of births in Japan — a country where few people have children out of wedlock — is also tumbling.
I think Japanese look at western notions of romance as some kind of weird anomaly… And where it works for foreigners probably has a big part to do with how much the Japanese woman truly understands and buys into the whole thing.
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Since Japan Today commenters seem to hate Japan and Japanese so much, these kinds of articles get lots of attention — like red meat thrown to dogs. I think that Japan is a matriarchy were it is assumed everyone is a woman. 2) As has been pointed out, almost all of these problems happen regardless of where the people are from. These are issues couples sometimes have, no matter where they are from. DON’T BEG your wife for sex, it usually doesn’t work.
Of course, matters of the heart do not strictly conform to economic conditions. Remaining single is often less of a deliberate stance than a reflection that the urgency to get married has diminished in today’s society, experts say. The percentage of women who work in Japan is higher than ever. Not so long ago, Japanese women who remained unmarried after the age of 25 were referred to as “Christmas cake,” a slur comparing them to old holiday pastries that cannot be sold after Dec. 25. I think that generally, in Asia, women tend to be demure in their ways. Just like their Japanese counterpart, Filipina women, of early times, also cover their mouths, and sometimes , even half of their faces, either with a fan or a handkerchief.
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But the one answer that came back over and over was that they felt they could never love their spouse if they didn’t first respect them. You might think this fits with the stereotype of the docile, subservient Japanese wife or even the disinterested, passive, working Japanese husband, but you’d be wrong.
Asada works as a student adviser at a „cram school” that provides private academic tutoring for college applicants. Tall and attractive, she often gets asked out on dates by colleagues. „My weekends are too precious.” Her favorite pastimes are shopping for clothes and makeup and playing games on her smartphone. Asada says she doesn’t miss sex, and casual hookups are not for her. „In theory you should be able to have sex just for fun, but in reality it’s too much trouble.” In fact, casual sex is problematic for most young women in Japan. While the country is known for its liberal attitudes toward erotic pleasure, double standards apply to women.
Another spike in the number of women in the Japanese Diet came in 2009, when the Democratic Party of Japan took over the House of Representatives from the LDP in a landslide victory. Out of the 46 female candidates ran by the DPJ, 40 were elected. However, the DPJ also failed to capitalize on this momentum to institutionalize gender quotas. While the DPJ implemented a few https://digitalguerillas.ning.com/forum/topics/ketoviante-diet-lose-weight-get-slim-sexy-figure?page=1&commentId=3511710%3AComment%3A11774027&x=1 non-quota policies with the aim of increasing women’s representation, the effects of these policies were only marginal. Similar to the LDP in 2005, the DPJ ran a large number of women candidates not because the party cared about gender equality, but due to political strategy. In fact, the DPJ imitated Prime Minister Koizumi’s strategy of indicating reform and societal change through its nomination of women. I often told by Japanese that both males and females enjoy sex and intercourse very much.
So it’s not an issue of ‘nurseries are bad for children’, it’s an issue of ‘we want more input into our child’s life, rather than having the teachers at the nursery responsible for most of it’. It isn’t about exposing kiddies to ‘nasty cooties’ or fear of them picking up ‘strange antisocial beliefs or habits’.
