Men are under INTENSE pressure to succeed at work. Usually, they start at the bottom and take enormous amount of flack from bosses, are pressured to work WAY more than standard 40 hours per week, pressured to go to the bars to consummate the business deals and pressured to be company trolls.
With this pressure many men take out their enormously built-up pressure on their wives. It's a no-win for everyone, as sons and daughters see dad beatin' the holy crap out of the Mrs. and see her TAKE IT. Not the best predictor for interest in the married life.
Go ahead and check it out. That is the norm for married Japanese women.
Naturally, there was an exception. The wives of shoguns and warriors were NOT beaten, for some reason. My friend didn't know why, but that is an anomaly in their husband-beat-wife-relationship.
I can readily understand why there is little romance. I can readily understand the dearth of children.
I also worked in a Karaoke bar for a few months, JUST as a waitress...and I had to learn to SING in Japanese. What a hoot! Senaka awase no blue.... Lol.
The Japanese men, I hear, like little girls too. That's NOT an anomaly but a pretty standard preference of Japanese men...prepubescent girls.
For Japanese-American men and women--all bets are off. They are brought up as AMERICANS.
Wives of shoguns and warriors (women in the samurai class) were always armed (with a dagger), and were trained from childhood to defend themselves, both with the dagger and with the naginata, which was a sword mounted on a pole. So you did not mess around with them.
>>I worked with an Japanese-American woman for years.
She told me about what this article FAILS to mention, that is, in the Japanese culture it is 100% acceptable for husbands to beat wives. Wives are conditioned to and expected to TAKE IT without complaint or any form of retaliation.
Not true. Women are seen as subservient in many ways (in the office place and the home) and this is common in Asian society, but in my years living there and extensive knowledge of the culture this simply is untrue (and the fact that people in Japan are routinely arrested for it).
The lack of children exists mainly in the city. In the country they’re having children like crazy and homes with 4-7 kids aren’t rare.
Japanese pedophilia is disgusting, and the government is JUST NOW beginning to arrest people for creating drawn depictions of it.
She did not have anything nice to say about Japanese men.