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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 .
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 ...
A wife must always be submissive to her husband, and she can neither be offensive nor jealous. The husband has duties outside of the home and the wife has duties inside, and they do not interfere with the tasks of each other. [citation needed] To fulfill the role of "good wife, wise mother," the woman must educate her children accordingly ...
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).
The identity of his wife, which Hanyu had kept secret, was divulged by a weekly tabloid magazine. ... However, by the standards of Japanese culture — especially Japanese celebrity 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.
Lafcadio Hearn, an early Western Japanophile, with his wife Setsuko in 1892.. Japanophilia is a strong interest in Japanese culture, people, and history. [1] In Japanese, the term for Japanophile is "shinnichi" (親日), with "shin (親)" equivalent to the English prefix 'pro-' and "nichi (日)", meaning "Japan" (as in the word for Japan "Nippon/Nihon" (日本)).