<jwb@csse.monash.edu.au> wrote in message 
news:4sz%g.52545$rP1.46528@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Apud B Anderson <and@hotmail.com> (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus:
>>Why don't they? If I was a western woman, I would go to Japan, do a 2
>>year degree and become an OL.
>
> The fantasies of Andersonくん continue. I can imagine millions
> of "western women" lining up for this great chance to get a low-paid,
> low status job, and then end up with the best proze of all: married to
> a Japanese male.
>
> If it's so easy and so great, why isn't it happening already?


I don't see a lot of foreign "office ladies" but there are quite a lot of 
ladies I know who are apparently happily married to Japanese men. I don't 
think it's the worst fate in the world for a woman, probably not better or 
worse than being married to an Australian or any other nationality. In fact 
I would say that a lot of Japanese women seem to do very much worse in their 
marriages to foreign men.

The basic problems for foreign woman who want to be office workers are 
probably language and cultural barriers, but it isn't necessarily a low-paid 
job, and as Anderson says the hours are relatively light compared to the 
Japanese man's working hours.

A lot of married Japanese women do seem to enjoy rather a luxurious and easy 
life, it has to be said. Let's look up yuukan madamu in Edict: yes, it is 
there. Jim, have you ever met a "yuukan madamu"?

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