7-11 isn’t American, it’s Japanese! Of course it was founded in the US but it’s been Japanese-owned for some time.

Kinda hard to call Omoide Yokocho tucked away or a hidden gem considering it is literally next door to the biggest train station in the world....

Why do I keep assuming you are painting all Japanese people as the same?

So what is the reason, pure coincidence?

Japanese men still expect to be treated as kings of the castle with their wife attending to every need.

How do you define power? If you are talking power in the boardroom or power in the Diet, no doubt. But women hold immense power at home, go ask any Japanese husband, son, or daughter.

I’m not mansplaining anything to anyone here. Don’t say I am a troll; I am most definitely not a troll, certainly not because I disagree with your opinions. Why is it that some people like to dismiss everything that they disagree with as “mansplaining” or “being a troll”?

I am saying that there is something wrong with so much reinforcement that all women should be housewives.

We’re tolerant of everything.

“Liberal media agenda” - is it 1992? Such nostalgia for that worn out cliche!

Great, and where’s the evidence to support the claim that Japanese women are more subject to such sexism than western women? Nobody denies that Japan is a sexist society, as is the US, as are most countries. It’s not MORE sexist than other countries, at least not self-evidentially so.

You think Japanese women being strong of mind and having agency is “some weird thing that I am asserting?”

Everything is influenced by outside forces. Family situations, neighbors, teachers, everything. So of course this is influenced by outside forces.

“Society’s expectations” is a meaningless concept. We understand that if we are talking about the US, but for some reason people don’t seem to get that the Japanese have the same diversity of thought and motivation as Americans do.

Not every single woman gives up their careers, but there are definitely cultural standards that women in Japan face that men don’t.

I’m not claiming my experiences are the end of the discussion, either! But there is a narrative that says “Japanese culture says women are expected to end their careers and become housewives when they get married and start a family”, which is too reductive, and fairly ridiculous. My whole point of providing my…

Statistics for what? Exactly what are you expecting to be measured here? You can see the numbers of how many working women there are in the Japanese work force. The number is low. The reasons for that are not easily explained by statistics, and the reasons women drop out of the workforce are many, not easily reducible…

“Culture” is not that monolithic, neither in the US nor in Japan. For some that is indeed the expectation, for others having a career after starting a family is perfectly normal. It all depends on the family situation.

What else am I to go by but my own experience? There are women I know and have worked with, they are smart women with advanced degrees, the company wanted them to stay on the project but they left after their maternity leave on their own volition to stay home and raise their family. It was their choice.

All those guys are in their 20s, I’d say.