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In particular, since the postwar period, Japan has adopted the "male breadwinner" model, which favors a nuclear-family household in which the husband is the breadwinner for the family while the wife is a dependant. [20] When the wife is not employed, the family is eligible for social insurance services and tax deductions.
The majority of Japanese people remain committed to traditional ideas of family, with a husband who provides financial support, a wife who works in the home, and two children. [ 34 ] [ 54 ] [ 55 ] Labor practices , such as long working hours , health insurance , and the national pension system , are premised on a traditional breadwinner model .
Geisha were forbidden to sell sex but have mistakenly become a symbol of Japanese sexuality in the West because prostitutes in Japan marketed themselves as "geisha girls" to American military men. A frequent focus of misconceptions in regard to Japanese sexuality is the institution of the geisha. Rather than a prostitute, a geisha was a woman ...
Seishitsu (正室) is the Japanese term of the Edo period for the official wife of high-ranking persons. The tennō, kugyō (court officials), shōgun and daimyōs often had several wives to ensure the birth of an heir. The seishitsu had a status above other wives, called sokushitsu (側室, concubine).
Japanese sociologist Kyouji Watanabe disagrees with this theory. Considering that Japanese girls were allowed a high degree of social and sexual freedom until the moment of receiving the ohaguro , when they accepted their responsibility as a wife and mother, Watanabe posits that this was a social ritual by which both society and the young woman ...
In 1978, a Japanese fashion information magazine for girls called "GAL'S LIFE" [7] was first published. This magazine introduced the culture of women in the West Coast of the United States, and included punk rock music, along with other genres like new wave and indie. However, the magazine had nothing to do with Japan's gyaru culture.
Despite the apparent support of Japanese women's new found independence, part-time pay for Japanese women was only 61% of a man's wages, gradually worsening as the 70's drew on. [ 8 ] By the early 80's 45.8% of women aged fifteen and above were in the labor force, the women population of Japan comprising roughly 37.4% of the entire work force.
Koizumi Setsuko [1] (Japanese: 小泉 節子 、26 February 1868 - 18 February 1932), also known as Koizumi Setsu [2] (Japanese: 小泉 セツ) was the wife of the writer Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo). She helped Lafcadio in writing, and is author of Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn (Japanese: 思い出の記). [3]