Do you think Japanese women who have double-eyelid operations are doing it to look more Western?
The Japanese women lost nearly every one-on-one battle against Brazil, but somehow ended up winning 2-0.
No wonder that 70% of Japanese women stop work when their first child arrives.
Japanese women earn less than their male colleagues for the same kind of work.
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But these double eyelids are not as pronounced as those given to Japanese women after the war.
When Coca-Cola wanted to experiment with a supposedly healthy green-tea-flavoured drink, it targeted young Japanese women first.
According to Goldman Sachs, some 70% of Japanese women choose to leave the workforce after they've had children.
Japanese women too are experimenting with different lengths and sleeve styles to give the kimono a more contemporary look.
It may sound as if Japanese women are treading the path marked out by western feminists 30 years ago.
Japanese women are also less deter mined to break down traditional sex roles.
Classy to the end, Nadeshiko, as the Japanese women's team is known, did a conga line into the medal ceremony.
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In all, 1, 830 Japanese women emigrated to North Korea with their Korean husbands during a repatriation programme that ran until 1984.
Up until now, many Japanese women trapped by a lack of personal income and marketable skills, have stayed in unfulfilling relationships.
However, critics of the convention have previously argued that it could make it harder for Japanese women to flee abusive relationships abroad.
Nagatomo believes women like her stay single because Japanese women have changed while the men and the surrounding social structure have not.
Court documents posted by the newspaper say the two Japanese women stabbed to death were 81-year-old Kazuko Uehara and 29-year-old Rie Sugiyama.
No surprise that young Japanese women are among the world's savviest consumers.
He reckons that the only way Japanese women can manage their difficult lives is by postponing marriage and having fewer, if any, children.
By 2010, a third of Japanese women entering their 30s were single, as were roughly one in five of those entering their 40s.
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The focus was on a Japanese women in advertising in Shanghai, an apparel designer and maker, also in Shanghai, and an architect, based in Beijing.
Masako is often held up as a model for Japanese women, who are increasingly pursuing professional careers, marrying late, if at all, and postponing childbirth.
"Japanese women are highly educated and have great potential, " she says.
One entrepreneur has begun a pet-cloning business to cater to a growing number of Japanese women who are fonder of their cat or dog than their man.
Of the 200, 000 or so Japanese women thought to take high-dose pills illicitly for contraception some are smokers, and so at the greatest risk from these older pills.
The new cameras especially are a hit among Japanese women.
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Perhaps because of that, Japanese women have been politically lazy.
By way of example, Japanese women can hope to live to see their 86th birthday, while U.S. women are on average, not expected to make it past 81.
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Less than 5% of Japanese women are obese.
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Japanese women face rampant discrimination in the workplace, but seeking equal treatment would mean demanding that the existing order bend to the whims of the individual -- a selfish proposition in a land of groupthink.
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