
The career aspirations of Japanese women are said to be increasingly centred on the prospect of becoming a fulltime housewife, but instead of citing a desire to raise a family many such women are instead determined to enjoy a life of leisure supported by their man: “I don’t want to work,” “I want to sleep,” “I want to be watching daytime TV.”
“I want to be a housewife so I can take it easy and don’t have to work” sums up this line of thought.
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Japanese women were asked how much of their husband’s money he should be allowed as “pocket money” for covering expenses such as food, entertainment, hobbies and similar, and nearly half felt he should only be allowed a mere ¥1,000 a day.
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Survey results indicate that 80% of Japanese men now desire a wife who is prepared to work rather than just sit at home all day, which is in stark contrast to the majority of Japanese women who still expect the man to have a much higher income than them.
Some men even express a willingness to take on the role of stay-at-home husband, if their wife earns more…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: May 24, 2009 02:38 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Germany, Italy, Money, Prostitution, Romania, Taxes, Virginity

A girl who sold her virginity in an online auction to a wealthy Italian for $12,500 has been called a prostitute by the German government and ordered to pay up over half of her earnings, which she claimed to have raised in order to fund her university studies the easy way.
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Major Japanese credit card issuer Orient Corporation has begun taking applications for a Lucky Star credit card, featuring Konata as illustrated above.
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A recent survey has highlighted the overwhelming importance Japanese women place on the income of their prospective husbands, with 50% ruling out the prospect of marriage to a man with a lower income than themselves entirely as “unthinkable”, and a further 30% qualifying this to “if it looks as if he’ll earn more in future, it’s OK.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 18, 2009 15:18 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Fraud, Gamania, Law, Lucent Heart, MMORPG, Money, Taiwan

MMORPG Lucent Heart’s operator Gamania has announced its intent to pursue unprecedentedly harsh measures against those who wilfully abused a recent item replication bug on its servers.
As well as terminating their accounts and those of their entire clan, Gamania vows to pursue criminal charges of fraud against the dupers, with guilty offenders possibly facing ten year prison sentences.
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Sharp-eyed observers have spotted some very odd touches in Mio anime K-On! Most notably, the girls seem to be used to a life of true luxury, evident in all the episodes so far…
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Sweden’s tax collectors have added a new task to their list of official duties: looking at online strippers, strictly in order to assess their taxable assets, of course.
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Above you see four Japanese children asked what it is they want from life (presumably in adulthood).
Below are their answers:
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The latest unwholesome extreme of their country to fascinate Chinese net users is visible above; it is in fact an ATM, though of course you may be forgiven for mistaking it for a fitting in a public toilet. What’s more, it is functional and enjoys much use…
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A family which is so obese that they cannot work has convinced the government to pay them the equivalent of a substantial salary in benefits; not satisfied, they demand even more, saying “We deserve more”, and claiming that “All that healthy food is too expensive.”
The Chawner family claims £22,500 ($33,000, or $45,000 prior to the UK’s recent economic collapse) annually in benefits, having lived off state handouts without working for 11 years.
Still, even this is not enough and they demand more:
“What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It’s not our fault we can’t work. We deserve more.”
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