Japanese culture

 I am reading Regretting motherhood. Very logically, it describes the role of "mothers" in the world. It is not a beautiful, skeletonized story of motherhood, but the cry of the souls of real mothers. I believe that people always encompass conflicting aspects. Because I want to lose weight, but I also want to eat good food. I have a great boyfriend, but I also care about that girl. If everything could be moved away from emotion like a computer program, there would be no dramas, plays, operas, or music in the world. We wouldn't have to worry about them, and we could just go straight down the right path. He explains the contradiction that those logics can be applied to various things, but they cannot be applied to "motherhood. I love my children, but there must absolutely be some identity, time, and possibility of self that I have lost because of having them. Saying that children are cute or important must inherently be separated from that issue. This is why, as soon a...

 I received a very nice comment the other day. Receiving compliments from people outside of Japan made me keenly aware of the great influence that English has. It seems that many foreigners come to Japan on vacation. I was also surprised when I saw sumo in Osaka, which seemed like a foreign country. They say it is cheap and good quality is available. I have always thought that this is like a reversal of the Japanese people's flamboyant and pompous behavior overseas a few years ago. I believe that Japan does not have the courage to accept its declining country head-on. No matter which direction you look, it is obvious that the situation is in all directions. Even an ordinary commoner like me can understand this. Or, to put it another way, it is precisely because I am an ordinary citizen that I understand. Even in developed countries, we are still a conservative country, and many things have remained unchanged from the past until today. They talk about women's activities, but I d...