On Sep 8, 9:44 pm, chuckers <chucker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 9, 10:48 am, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Which makes me think of a question: can Japanese women, in theory, be
> > in combat? US women are MPs and frequently face combat in Iraq; I
> > wonder what the rules are for Japan's military. For some reason I
> > expect they all either operate video cameras, play the flute
> > (literally and figuratively), or do secretarial work.
>
> > John W.
>
> Japan doesn't have a military.  They have a "Self Defense Force."
> Wouldn't want the world to get upset about a Japanese Military, now
> would we?
>
> Here is an old article about the second wave being dispatched
> to Iraq with 11 members of the female persuasion in it:
>
> http://www2.asahi.com/special/jieitai/TKY200403130237.html
>
> Of course, it says that of those 11, 2 were in the medical corps and
> one
> was in charge of communications and supplies.  Hopefully, that means
> more
> than secretarial work.  But when you put it like that, answering
> phones
> and fetching tea does seem like a stereotypical secretary job.

There's always this:

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/photospecials/graph/asakusa-samba09/

I wish Mainichi still had Sumo news; that was the one thing they did
well. That and tell me how perverted some people in Japan are.

John W.