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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 .
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 date of the marriage of Setsuko and Lafcadio is uncertain. According to Setsuko herself, she married Lafcadio around December 1890. [11] Another story says that since the Koizumi family was also impoverished, around February 1891 Setsuko started her work as a live-in housekeeper in Lafcadio's house, where he lived by himself as an English teacher. [12]
The production of the film started in April 2007. This is the first time Aparna Sen has made a film based on someone else's story. This movie is based on the title story of The Japanese Wife and Other Stories by Bengali Indian author Kunal Basu, who writes from Oxford and is an engineer by training.
Konna Koi no Hanashi (こんな恋のはなし, A Story of Love) is a Japanese television drama starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Nanako Matsushima. It aired during the summer of 1997 in Japan and in 2001 on KONG-TV in the United States .
Hoda Kotb is looking ahead towards a possible wedding in her future.. On the Dec. 11 episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna, Kotb and co-host Jenna Bush Hager discussed the "micro-wedding" trend ...
It has to do with Sasaki’s harrowing life story. Sasaki was just 9 years old in 2011 when the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ravaged eastern Japan. His father and two of his grandparents were ...
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (めくらやなぎと眠る女, Mekurayanagi to nemuru onna) is a collection of 24 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.. The stories contained in the book were written between 1980 and 2005, and published in Japan in various magazines and collections.