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| Introduction | |
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| Looking at ... | |
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| Marriage and Tradition | |
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| Oh no, I'm married to your company! | |
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| Your wife is bragging about her misfortune | |
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| We have to remember that it is our own fault because we raised them that way, didn't we? | |
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| It looks like she can't respect her husband anymore | |
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| When my husband lost his job, I thought, "This is my chance!" | |
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| I don't like New Year's | |
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| Men | |
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| Men always want to lead women around | |
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| Men do not know the world | |
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| A man who is sleeping makes a great impression | |
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| It looks like people are now looking for "home cooking" outside the home | |
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| Once a man becomes middle aged, he has to make a lot of female friends | |
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| Ourselves | |
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| Thanks for getting to the point where I cannot kill you anymore | |
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| It is always said that women's happiness is something that is made for them | |
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| I do not like my age no matter how old I am | |
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| I was a cold person who tried to live a "faultless" life | |
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| I am a D student (literally, "I am a sixty-point person") | |
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| I don't have the word criticism in my vocabulary | |
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| Do not ask us to butter you up! | |
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| I have a pet monkey who knows how to tie a necktie very well | |
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| Is honne (showing one's true colors) such a good thing? | |
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| Is a woman's identification card her husband's business card? | |
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| What did I want to be, I wonder? | |
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| There are more people these days who don't feel ashamed about being highly educated | |
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| It was punishment for being an ideal, perfect, good wife | |
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| The people who dress up to go to a reunion are pitiful | |
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| Women are thought to be just the place where men sleep | |
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| It is hard to see someone having to smile all the time | |
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| I wonder if even the wife of a guy like that thinks he's OK? | |
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| Even though she is a healthy adult, only a wife gets categorized as a dependent | |
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| My days go by with me only speaking baby talk | |
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| It's kind of nice to be able to feel happy about someone else's happiness | |
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| That woman is like an obstinate, grumpy old man | |
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| Other Women | |
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| Women don't need their own names, do they? | |
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| The shujin (literally, "master") of the house is me | |
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| It is not because I am afraid of my husband | |
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| One always has to make sure to speak logically | |
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| We can see very well the home life at the other end of the phone | |
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| Their double income has been in vain | |
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| Housewife is just the pronoun for stupid | |
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| Although she talks big, her house is probably still a mess | |
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| With much difficulty, she had a baby when she was older | |
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| As a housewife and mother, I am proud that I have done my duty | |
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| At the workplace she still acts like a housewife | |
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| Please discriminate against women | |
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| It's become a case of "the weak fish eat the weaker fish," hasn't it? | |
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| How to Deal with ... | |
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| Families, Parents, and Parents-in-Law | |
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| I always feel "Thank god we have TV" during mealtime | |
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| I am nice (yasashii) to elderly people whom I don't know ... | |
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| Because I don't need to do anything while I am walking, I love it | |
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| My children are my life, but my work is my life's purpose | |
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| It would have been better if I had liked my mother-in-law | |
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| Since I am the eldest daughter, my father is not immunized yet ... | |
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| They can't stand each other unless they change their surroundings from time to time | |
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| Life and Society | |
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| We should only have surface-level associations with others | |
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| Being the perpetrator is very hard | |
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| Because I cannot see the faces of my audience ... | |
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| We can't conduct a conversation equally when we only use women's language | |
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| I am a kind person on the outside who really just disposes of people | |
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| I cry because there is nothing I can do | |
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| Thinking about ... | |
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| Women's Social Roles and Our Behavior in Men's Society | |
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| Kindness just because you're a woman is a real pain! | |
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| We can't stand by and let women's sincere good intentions be exploited anymore | |
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| Women, please don't become a person who is "female on the outside but male on the inside" | |
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| Today I have to go intimidate men | |
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| Social Attitudes toward Women | |
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| Men don't work for free, do they? | |
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| Mother is waiting | |
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| Because she gives me money, she is tricky | |
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| Women can't be unemployed, right? | |
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| Mothers are mothers of children, but at the same time mothers of the nation | |
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| I am sorry that we women have to feel frightened when we go out at night | |
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| When they found she was defective, they naturally returned her | |
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| How We Are Seen | |
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| Why do mothers threaten their children so much? | |
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| Please don't tie me down | |
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| Congratulations on not being the eldest son | |
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| It looks like I'm an auntie now. Hah! | |
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| What is your social status? | |
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| What I Want to Be | |
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| A "Ms. Ditz" cannot remain a "bachelorette" | |
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| A person who does not have some inferiority complex is weird | |
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| I do not want to be a "cute little old lady" | |
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| How can we say it is honorable to be killed that way? | |
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| If you want, you can call me a traitor. I don't care | |
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| Why do women have to be cute (kawaii)? | |
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| Whatever I have is all mine | |
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| I hope the days of the unknown future will be beautiful! | |
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| You should protect your own sensibilities | |
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| The abundant seeds of grass that don't know national boundaries are cast upon the ground | |
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| A person whom we can ask for advice is nice | |
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| It is good that I have a dress that makes my accessory look nice | |
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| My father knows only the words, "fall in love" | |
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| When men are around it is happy and cheerful | |
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| I would like to age subjectively | |
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| How Society Should Be | |
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| She is a person who lets people "wait without frustration" | |
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| The public is us [because the public opinion is our voice] | |
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| If I become a person who becomes bedridden, I'd rather die | |
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| A medical doctor is a person who cannot understand anything without doing an examination first | |
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| We should not use titles on the rooms of nursing homes | |
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| I wish I could always say the right thing in the right way | |
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| The woman who lies here by herself prays for peace | |
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| Life exists between person and person | |
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| Fortunately my mouth and spirit are still healthy | |
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| The future really is the power of imagination | |
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| Each individual's words gave me strength | |
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| This is a town that keeps the worst of the country and has lost the best of the country | |
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| Married Life | |
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| The only thing I ever did with my husband was arrange for my father-in-law's funeral | |
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| It is just that "my domestic life comes with me" | |
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| Why did you get involved with that kind of woman? | |
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| What is a family? When we become ill, we find out very soon | |
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| But you love that kind of man, right? | |
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| I wonder when a home became a thing that can be bought and sold | |
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| Social Issues | |
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| I am getting to know how to get along with my illness | |
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| The most important thing about being a human being is to learn about the world by ourselves | |
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| I just attend events because they have day care | |
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| If it is a love affair, it is an offense against a wife, but if it is prostitution, it is an offense against all women | |
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| It is a mother's love that makes her want to not draw attention to her child in a crowd | |
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| I think it is so good that I am not a Japanese | |
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| Volunteer activities, in other words, are underpaid part-time jobs | |
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| I already passed the age when I should have died! | |
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| Nature and Beauty | |
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| Outside I wear clothes that suit my figure, but at home I wear clothes that I like | |
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| Far away, far away, cherry blossoms are falling | |
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| There is no such thing as a plant called "weed" | |
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| Oh,... I am still beautiful! | |
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| The winter chrysanthemum is not pleasant | |
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| A Conclusion? | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author, Translators, and Editors | |