January 2011
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“Last year, 45 percent of those ages 15 to 24 in the work force held irregular...”
– So true! A Japanese friend of mine who went to Showa University (an elite women’s college in Tokyo which gives students an opportunity for bilingual education, including spending 18 months at their campus in Boston, MA) did not find any job at all and is now working as a bartender.
Japan...
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“In 1987, 788 men died alone (kodokushi) in Tokyo residences. In 2006, the number...”
– This trend is so nicely documented in the Tokyo The Movie and Departures (Okuribito in Japanese).
Japan’s tribe of lonely people continues to grow | The Japan Times Online
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“According to a 2009 government survey, women made up 8 percent of managerial...”
– And that is why as I wrote earlier there is no reason for Japan to import labor from overseas. Japanese women have the same, or even better, work ethics as Japanese men and given the opportunity to work without discrimination, they can bring back the glorious days of Japan.
At Toshiba, a Pioneer...
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“Young Japanese men are growing indifferent or even averse to sex, while married...”
– Additionally, a WHO report released in March found that 1 in 4 married couples in Japan had not made love in the previous year, while 38% of couples in their 50s no longer have sex at all.
Young men, couples shunning sex | The Japan Times Online
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WatchShibuhara Girls (those that hang out in Tokyo neighborhoods of Shibuya and Harajuku) is reality TV Japan style. The women participating in the show are Sun Wei, Kozue Akimoto, Marie Ishikawa, and Shion Miyawaki.
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Japanese girl in English print frock
I keep noticing that dress can be rocked even if it is fairly simple. She seems to have a belt on but it does not scream and I see no accessories but that very classic print is such a feast to the eyes.
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Japanese women in dress with bow
I must say that this Japanese girl would not have caught my attention if all she had was this plain dress on but that bow at the waist changes the game.
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Japanese girl wearing teeshirt with hearts
If Moussy Godlis tee shirt did not catch your attention, this one might. From what I can read (with all the hearts) it says something like ‘you make my happy.” You sure do.
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Why women should let their husbands cheat?
One of the biggest fears that a woman in a relationship has is that her man will cheat and abandon her for someone younger, or in some cases for a cougar, and even worse, for another man. The reality is that married men are attracted to other women but they rarely take things so seriously with them. For a man to flirt or fling or an extramarital affair is no more serious than watching a baseball...
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Why foreigners are not welcome in Japan?
In 2009, the number of registered foreigners here fell for the first time since the government started to track annual records almost a half-century ago, shrinking 1.4 percent from a year earlier to 2.19 million people — or just 1.71 percent of Japan’s overall population of 127.5 million.
The problem with this article is that it fails to mention that since 1990, when Japan had...