RE: The Dark Side of Japanese Work Culture
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I also heard that if a guy goes home too early his wife will ask him why are you home so early, why are you not at nomikai. So many guys just hang around in the streets or eat by themselves instead of going home.
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I think that was more a thing of the war generation, not the Boomers. There used to be a joke that the first and only thing a man would tell his wife among getting home was "Meshi, furo, neru!" — meaning "food, bath, sleep". Marriages of that time were all by matchmakers and rarely involved love, just two sides that knew their roles: working almost 24/7 for the men and keeping the home, raising the kids, and making sure the men worked 24/7 for the women.
No wonder, my favorite author, Murakami writes so much about Japanese housewife and "older girlfriends"! :)
That reminds me of the old Groucho quip: