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It's always shocking to me to see just how deeply misogynistic and sexist the Japanese culture can be. Having an engineer be a secretary just because that's pretty much all a woman could aspire to is baffling. Note, this is in 1986. I wonder if things have changed significantly since then.

I have never known what to do with anger. Impossible to express it, impossible not to feel it.

I feel this way sometimes.... ok, most of the time.

Really enjoying this, but snow hampers reading time

she's an ugly American but she's not an annoying ugly American. That's the major differentiator in Americans in Japan books.

In some ways Japan in 1985 was different to 2001. In some it was exactly the same