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Japanese children are taught to act harmoniously and cooperatively with others from the time they go to pre-school. This need for harmonious relationships between people is reflected in much Japanese behavior. Many place great emphasis on politeness, personal responsibility and working together for the universal, rather than the individual, good.
Miai (見合い, "matchmaking", literally "look meet"), or omiai (お見合い) as it is properly known in Japan with the honorific prefix o-, is a Japanese traditional custom which relates closely to Western matchmaking, in which a woman and a man are introduced to each other to consider the possibility of marriage.
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.
Sushi is an iconic example of Japanese cuisine. Many foreigners assume the Japanese consume sushi on a regular basis, when in fact it is often reserved for special occasions. [2] Additionally, because Japan is one of the few countries that continues to practice commercial whaling, the Japanese are often stereotyped as eating whale and dolphin ...
As of 2018, the rate of divorce for international marriages stands at 50.5%. while for non-international marriages, the rate of divorce is 34.9%. [16] However, the rate of divorce varies depending on the gender of the spouse. For marriages involving a foreign husband and a Japanese wife, as of 2018, the divorce rate is 43%.
The Japanese "national character" has been written about under the term Nihonjinron, literally meaning 'theories/discussions about the Japanese people' and referring to texts on matters that are normally the concerns of sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, and philosophy, but emphasizing the authors' assumptions or perceptions of ...
The Japanese nation as a whole has been viewed as a single group by its people in relation to other nations. Intense nationalism has frequently been a manifestation of group members' desire to "catch up and overtake" the advanced ("superior") nations of the West, while the rights of non-Western nations, like China or Korea, often viewed as ...
Japanese women have their first child at an average age of 30.3 (2012 estimate). [79] Government policies to increase the birthrate include early education designed to develop citizens into capable parents. [80] Some critics of these policies believe that this emphasis on birth rate is incompatible with a full recognition of women's equality in ...