I lived in Japan for three years. When I was an assistant at a Japanese junior high school, I was engaged to be married. Everyone kept asking if I was going to quit working after I got married and I had to repeatedly say "no." The women there also couldn't believe that my soon-to-be husband and I shared the chores.…

If you think the USA has a problem with only old, rich, right-winger, social conservative, big business ass-kissing assholes getting into power because the only people who bother to go vote are all idiots, you should see how Japan has perfected the art of political apathy giving rise to bad governance.

That she's a woman doing physical activity that directly strengthens her body and makes her able to fend for herself physically. I was heckled and harassed when I dared to try jogging on the streets in Russia (I have family there). For the same reason - women who are seen in public engaging in any sort of physically…

I.. what? I assume she means his parents are both of Japanese ancestry. I don't know how you could be any less "actual" Japanese based on whether or not you are still living or have ever lived in the country.

Isn't this like the definition of an ad hominem?

"The number of women who are receiving infertility treatments is increasing. The metropolitan government should take a more active role in mitigating their problems."

I remember one of my Japanese teachers in college telling me flat out that she would never, ever move back to Japan permanently. She described how when she would go back to her hometown for visits and go jogging in the mornings, people would look at her like she was some kind of Amazon. At the time, I was a bit…

Er, nope. What happened there is awful, but let's not start with jokes about Asian's guys' penisses.

At Japanese International Schools all over the world, the Japanese teachers are sent directly from Japan by the Ministry of Education. At the school I used to work at, there has never been an unmarried male teacher. Someone once told me that it just wouldn't be done - they need to have wives to rein them in. What.…

On Average?

One of my friends moved to MI from Japan for college and she was talking about how her whole family hated her mother because she went back to work after she had kids. I goes it's embarrassing to them to have to say that she (my friend) was a key-kid (has a key to their house and is expected to stay home alone). It's…

1) This was an incredible breach of etiquette.

I've never wanted to kick a firefighter's ass as much as I do right now.

You go girl.

Don't get be fucking started on the tea shit.

God, tell me about it.

I read the headline and I was like, "I wonder if this official is male or female." Hahahaha, just kidding, I wasn't like that at all!

Really no way to identify? Most parliaments have people whose only job it is to record who said what, it might be that the Japanese don't have that, but that seems quite unlikely.

I would have flipped my shit and run up the aisles Rob Ford style, punching them all. But this is why I'm not in a political office or a member of law enforcement.

"For such male members, understanding and making policies for women who want to but can't marry or have children would be difficult BECAUSE THEY ARE DICKHOLES." FIXED