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Yep. I've been saying this over and over again. Japanese women are quite simply, lazy. They marry because they want to guarantee a steady and convenient source of income. I don't know why men buy into it, but I can only imagine that they've been indoctrinated into it by their lazy and spoiled baby-boomer mothers.
I guess all our Japans are different, because where I live most of the supermarket cash registers are staffed by non-Japanese!
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Yay, Brissie! One of Australia's greatest, yet underrated cities. I spent a summer there with a boyfriend. My love for him quickly waned, but my love for Brisbane never will. I'd love to go back.
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I'm on the side of the oldies here. A couple of days ago I went for a mani-pedi (in a salon located near a pre-school) and had to spend the whole session listening to some squalling, snivelling brat having a major temper tantrum outside the window. I could practically feel my ovaries shrivelling up in disgust. My dream is to live in a retirement community where kids are only allowed to visit once a week.
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@Happy11311. Doesn't seem to be working there anymore.
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I think that in Japan, college is a good way to make important connections, often life-long ones. I'm impressed with the way that people keep in touch with their old school friends here. I recently met a lady in her seventies who attended a kindergarten reunion - I didn't even know that kindergartens existed in those days!
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Tessa
I'm sorry to say this, but the most annoying non-Japanese co-workers I've had in Japan are the blah, beta western males who get treated like superstars by giggly OLs, and let it all go to their heads. Some of them get away with behaviour and remarks that would have them hauled up for sexual harassment in any other nation.
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Tessa
Absolutely! My friend's daughter was in the same situation. Although her (relatively wealthy) parents were happy to provide room and board during her student years, they refused to pay for anything else, such as clothes, hobbies, or travel. She was forced to take on a part-time job at a fast food restaurant, and did so well at it that she was offered a full-time position by the time she graduated. She recently married, and plans to keep on working within the system to improve conditions for working mothers. I'll be watching that young lady with interest!
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Tessa
Absolutely. Nail on head. I work with mothers and kids who are Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Without wishing to generalise, the Japanese mothers are "hands-off" to the point of being downright lazy. The other mothers take a keen interest in their children's education (yes, sometimes to the point of being annoying, but never to the point of disprespecting the teachers) and they do whatever it takes to get their kids to sit up and pay attention. Oh, and quite a few of them hold down jobs as well!
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I used to think so, but a student who suffered from "atopi" was told by her doctor that it's more likely to be caused by air pollution. He strongly advised her to move out of the city.
Without wishing to sound vulgar, I don't usually share either with other people. I don't care to share my bathwater, either, for the same reasons.
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Tessa
Not to mention that people generally don't go to the ocean to clean their bodies. At least, I certainly don't.
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Okay, now I've heard it all!
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This is brilliant advice. I'm glad I took it.
I know several people who've done this, too. They are easily supporting wives and children on their incomes, and they get to go "home" once or twice a year. Kudos to them, I say!
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If that's the case, then why do women go last?
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Yes, it really does. It seems that every couple of weeks or so, you hear about mass food poisoning incidents. And that's just the reported cases (there are unreported ones too, if my Japanese friends' experiences are anything to go by).
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I must be hanging out in the wrong places, but I only know two kinds of western male in Japan:
The bright-eyed and bushy-tailed newbies (who have no interest in me).
The bitter alcoholic divorcees (who are of no interest to me).
The smart ones get out between 1 and 2, so I never get to meet them.
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Fuji-san was disgustingly dirty, almost like a toilet. The first UNESCO team was apparently shocked to see this. Japanese friends regularly assured me that Mt. Fuji was better admired from a distance, and that I'd be disappointed by the mess if I got up close (so I took their advice and never bothered climbing).
I thought so too, the way the Japanese carry on about it!
Anyway, good news for Japan! Long live Mt Fuji. Now Japan, do the right thing and apply far more stringent criteria to climbing rights, don't just let anyone go on up there.
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This argument doesn't hold water. The same thing can be done with a flooring room too, provided there is enough storage space.
Ah, this was the bugbear with my architect student. He said that the fact that people insist on using their bedrooms as dining rooms is precisely what attracts the nasty insects in the first place. He strongly recommended that if people insist on regularly using a tatami room as a living room, then don't even spill so much as a drop of clean water on the mats, let alone crumbs of food.
Anyway, if tatami is so great, then why do most modern homes now only one tatami room, and flooring or even carpeting for the rest?
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Wait a minute, she went to college and ended up with a 130,000 yen a month job?
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Hooray, she showed up after all, and she looks great! I wonder who the po-faced lady standing behind her is ... her minder, perhaps?
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I cannot stand the idea of washing my undergarments in cold water, or washing them together with bath towels and dish drying towels, like so many Japanese people do. Since I came to Japan I wear disposable paper panties. It's probably not good for the environment, but it's better for my peace of mind. Also, a large number of Japanese households recycle their bathwater for laundry. Just think, four or five people have bathed in the water that you are about to use to launder your panties.
About tatami: according to my student, a retired architect, tatami is so attractive to insects that he refuses to have a tatami room in his home. Tatami is dirty. He said that this is pretty much common knowledge amongst architects in Japan.
As for the face masks, they are often re-used for days on end. My feeling is that masks aren't really used to keep germs out, so much as to keep people cut off from society. I can't really blame them.
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