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They call themselves haenyo (pronounced hen-yuh), which literally means sea women and the whistling sound they made preceding their exit from the depths is called sumbisori. They are representative of a centuries old tradition, one which transformed their island in to a functioning matriarchy but a way of life which today is in danger of disappearing forever.

 Je suis devenue écrivain à 35 ans. Avant, j’étais femme au foyer. A cette époque, je croyais à la vertu et à la bonne volonté ; je voulais être quelqu’un de bien. Mais, je n’étais pas heureuse. C’est difficile d’interpréter le monde : je me trouvais souvent face au désarroi ou au désespoir. Je prenais soin de ma famille mais je gardais l’impression d’être seule, je gardais un sentiment d’inutilité. Il m’a fallu accepter le fait que le monde d’aujourd’hui est injuste, absurde et tragique. J’ai  alors découvert le côté lâche et égoïste du monde que je ne connaissais pas avant.  

Nearly two-thirds (63%) say that they quit because their career was not satisfying and a startling 49% left because they felt stymied and stalled.

Tu me rappelles drôlement la fille que j'étais à ton âge, fonceuse et délicate. Il faut dire que j'étais pas mal moins sexy que toi. Je portais des robes de chez Import Bazar qui puaient le patchouli et ressemblaient à des sacs de toile à col de dentelle, avec des bottes de construction et des bas de laine de chez Canadian Tire. Appelons ça une allure innocente faussement lolitienne.

"If I can't dance," her response has been paraphrased, "I'm not coming to your revolution."

some Japanese women opt for a close shave.

Although some were mere figments of imagination, most of these calendar girls were famous heroines, ladies from history, popular singers, models, and actresses of the day.

Japan is facing a demographic time bomb. By 2055, the total population will shrink by around 30%. Due to the country’s harsh immigration policies, its percentage of foreign workers is the lowest of any OECD country, at less than 2%.

Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 percent of the food, but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property

Women are being underused in the Japanese economy, which can ill-afford to waste precious human talent, especially as the country reels from the impact of the global recession on its export market.

karl says:

January 16, 2010 at 8:48 pm

Interesting because there is the other part of the interaction which is not analyzed. The talk is made about people (men, women) looking for a position (arrogant liar), not that much about the person in position of granting the position (the one listening, reading the arrogant liar).

I had to interview people and writing recommendation letters for others. In this position, self arrogant liars usually didn’t make it very far. I have also lived in Japan, where it is usually perceived as a bad quality to be self-promoting. In all this discussion, it seems there might be a cultural bias from North-America. “Being successful”, “Taking risks” are not necessary good criteria to get what you want. It might have been successful for some people and kind of self-validating that “being arrogant works” when they didn’t get the positions where arrogance was perceived as a bad quality. It sounds like self-selection of communities, more than a rule.