
“It’s strange for a career housewife to be providing her services for free” – under this reasoning one married couple have taken their relationship to a new level, a commercial one.
Each evening the husband finds a note in the kitchen, “Bento – Needed / Not Needed,” and if circling “needed” he must leave ¥400 on the table as payment for the morning’s bento (a bento generally costs ¥300-500 at a convenience store).
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In order to allow executions of young girls to comply with Islamic law, Iran has guards “marry” them the night before they are due to be killed in order to deflower them and render the killing legal and holy, sources report.
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A Chinese writer writing that “the Japanese woman we know is a thing of the past” has unexpectedly been hailed by 2ch as possessing an accurate grasp of the state of the nation’s womanhood.
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Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has made a short anime attack ad as part of its election campaign, caricaturing the profligate policies of the opposition Democratic Part of Japan as fiscally unsound, and distributed online.
You can view it below:
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The most common reason for marriage in Japan now appears to be unplanned pregnancy, and the enterprising Japanese bridal industry, fearful of the effect the term “shotgun wedding” might be having on their sales, is planning on renaming marriages designed to cover up an unexpected pregnancy “angel weddings” instead…
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Weak, effete men and the improved social position of women in recent years are held to be amongst the reasons that a quarter of Japanese may soon pass their entire lives without ever marrying.
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Those Gundam loving couples hankering after a wedding in the shadow of an 18m tall replica of the original RX-78 Gundam are in luck, as a company is now offering just such a ceremony.
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The dire financial straits of Japan’s animators appear to show few signs of improving, with a reported average yearly salary of Tokyo-area animators being around a measly $11,000 and the percentage of those leaving the industry entirely at 8 – 9%.
One animator reports a monthly wage of only $700: “I can’t afford a girlfriend, let alone a wife.”
Even a producer from well-known, although oft-troubled, animation studio Gonzo laments:
“Since last year the number of orders for new projects and our fees have been dropping. A 30-minute TV episode contract used to be ¥18,000,000 ($180,000), but now it’s around ¥13,000,000.”
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A recent survey has uncovered just what it is Japanese men and women say they want from a partner in terms of both looks and mental characteristics, and what they look at on a date.
The results may make interesting, if unsurprising, reading…
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A teacher has been arrested for viciously beating his wife’s udders with a metal baseball bat, apparently in order to sabotage her milk production.
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This survey of female anime fans, asking which anime character they would most like to wed, yielded some intriguing results.
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Two surveys of who male and female anime fans would most like wed present some interesting, if at times predictable, results; the first covers who male fans would most like to have as wife.
No prizes will be awarded for guessing who the frontrunner for the anime wife list is…
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