Reischauer manages to list only negative things as possible factors causing the low divorce rate. The Japanese Today. The Japanese Today.
Japanese men are blatantly male chauvinists and women seem shamefully exploited and suppressed.
Because the Japanese have merged their feelings about race, culture, and nation together, they have probably made their attitudes toward race all the stronger. It is as if they regarded themselves as a different species from the rest of humanity. The Japanese Today. Unfortunately the Japanese have proved notably inept at learning to speak foreign languages or to comprehend them aurally. As the old Japanese saying goes, the nail that sticks out gets banged down.