One of the less-discussed reasons...

[akujunkan]

...to immediately dislike Abe Shinzo:

Another [of Abe's cabinet appointments] was the education adviser, Eriko Yamatani, 56, a critic of sex education and the teaching of “excessive” equality of the sexes in schools.

The new state minister in charge of sex equality, Sanae Takaichi, 45, has opposed allowing women to have different legal family names from their husbands, a freedom women sued to win in the late 1980’s.

I believe one of the BIG reasons why Japan remains in the dark ages of gender equality is the fact that the intelligent, educated women who realise what a horrid deal they're getting either: ]
a) don't marry/have children
b) choose to live abroad in more enlightened countries
c) choose to marry (usually Western) men from more enlightened countries, or most commonly, a combinations of any of the above.

That will be all.

Comments

[absenceofmind.livejournal.com]

shinzo abe is just what we don't need, another nationalistic neo-conservative who thinks he wants to resurrect the glory of the rising sun through belligerent posturing and outdated ideals.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

And the sad thing is is that most of the Japanese people do not want to reform their pacifist constitution, among other changes he's pushing.

So why's he there? In my four years in the country, I never met a single person who had ever voted. That was for the narrowminded conservatives. Which of course results in...narrowminded conservatives electing their ilk. >.