After her first stroke, Obaachama had talked more than she ever had before. Her family members observed that she now used informal verb constructions she had never used before and most unexpectedly, a verb of longing, expressing admiration from a distance, akogareru , about her young neurosurgeon. There is much about language in the Buckley collection, including a disturbing piece in which Ochiai Keiko describes how she could not get her novel about rape published with its original title, Gokan , the Japanese word for rape, but had to use the Japanese version of the English, namely repu , which has a bodice-ripping thrill connotation to it. The novel has not been translated into English. These remain unchanged at this writing.
Gender marking in the Japanese language is basic.
Ide asserts that since women must adhere to strict degrees of politeness, it has been true that there is less actual content in what they say. Serious discussions are more difficult for them to conduct than for males. The assumption in that country is that infertility is an illness to be treated. Kanazumi also discusses surrogate pregnancy in Japan. Jolivet, on the other hand, discusses neither and apparently assumes that couples who are childless in Japan are always so by their own choice.