On 7 Mar 2004 08:46:38 -0800, japanskeptic@yahoo.com (X Japan) wrote:

>Here's my situation:
>
>My wife, who is Japanese (I am American) is a possessive, jealous,
>angry women who hits and screams at our 2 babies. She doesn't work,
>doesn't do housework, and mostly sits around all day screaming at the
>kids and watching TV. (By the way, we are now in the U.S.).
>
>When I tell her to STOP hitting, slapping and screaming at our 2
>babies (one is 6 months, the other 18), she flatly refuses, saying
>that is "Japanese Way". I am ready to call the cops, the situation has
>become so bad. And yet she flatly refuses to stop slapping, saying
>this is "Japanese Way".

Sorry, it's not the "Japanese way" -- at least from my perspective of
having lived in Tokyo for seven years and having a Japanese
sister-in-law with three children. Never once in my years in Japan did
I ever see a Japanese mother even raise a hand against her child.