Message from jhou

[Anonymous]

In Japanese society, women aged over 25 are often considered as "unworkable and old." Many of college graduates are usually working in the office for a few years and move into a domestic job as a full-time housewife. It can not deny the fact that the image of a good woman is to obey her father, obey her husband and obey her oldest son. What the use of having women, in Japan, might be helpful if they can act like an entertainer such as the article describing how Japanese women want to work at the tea house as a hostess. It must be a struggle for them because some of them work there for money, as opposed to others who work there to declare their independence and self-sufficiency. The price of becoming like a western woman might not work for Japanese women. After all, they are educated in a Confucius society, shadowed by their mother's image, clouded by the traditional values, and worse of all, lived by the speedy commercial brave new world, a world that they have to learn how to adopt and adapt quickly and well. It is a long way to go for Japanese women. julie