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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 | |