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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.
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
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%. This is considerably lower than the divorce rate for marriages involving a Japanese husband and a foreign wife, which is 53.7% [16]
Retired husband syndrome (主人在宅ストレス症候群, shujin zaitaku sutoresu shōkōgun, literally "one's husband being at home stress syndrome") [1] (RHS) is a psychosomatic stress-related illness recognized in Japanese culture which has been estimated to occur in 60% of the older female population. [2]
Generally in Japan, a woman takes her husband's name and is adopted into his family. When a family, especially one with a well established business, has no male heir but has an unwed daughter of a suitable age, she will marry the mukoyōshi, a man chosen especially for his ability to run the family business. [ 1 ]
Japanese pronouns (代名詞, daimeishi) are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people or things that can be pointed at. The position of things (far away, nearby) and their role in the current interaction (goods, addresser, addressee , bystander) are features of the meaning ...
The Way of the Househusband (Japanese: 極主夫道, Hepburn: Gokushufudō, lit. ' Extreme Way of the Househusband ' ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kousuke Oono. Published in the online manga magazine Kurage Bunch since 2018, The Way of the Househusband follows an ex- yakuza member who retires from crime to become a ...
Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...