Today's Japanese women are well-educated and worldly. They watch 'Sex and the City' and wonder why their husbands are not more dynamic. And their husbands, having lost the security of lifetime employm

there you go...all it takes is a few episodes of SATC...

So...the moral of this story is to watch 'Sex and the City' together? What a load of ..ahem. Maybe if they actually communicated with each other and men didn't want to marry monmmy and women didn't want to be pampered pooches, a real partnership would be reached.

If it is that simple, then we should ban "sex in the city" and all be happy. Except Mercedes-Benz; the whole film seems to be one big advertisement for their cars.

They want their husbands to be like actors they see on TV? Man...are they living in a dream world of what? Suddenly I feel sorry for the Japanese guys..

Pretty shallow analysis

Wow! Don't get me wrong as I love SATC but to thin that Japanese women are "educated" and use SATC as an example as to why blows my mind. Japanese women get the greedy side of SATC. It seems they missed the fact that ALL four women had careers and worked their butts off. Why did they not "get" that? Because they don't want to. I feel sorry for Japanese men. Nothing they do is good enough - and foreigners who marry them realise that as some point as well.

Yet another clueless "expert" rehashing nonsense from a mediocre Japanese university. Doesn't anyone, foreign or otherwise, have one single original and interesting thing to say about male-female relations in this country?

Pretty shallow analysis

Bingo. A culture expert and lecturer. Well, hell, that is what I am! Why can't be quoted? I could give a better analysis than this. How about women have materialistic aims in their marriages and men have lust, and that for almost 95% of all marriages, neither side really understands the other. It is truly a parallel universe in which the two bump up against each other and like magnets repel each other in disgust. Now, to get into a flipping TV show (which I have happily never watched, thank God) and to make that as a flipping variable as to why J women want more sex and more 'life' from their husbands borders on the insane. They have always wanted that, but the men are worked into the ground and so it is impossible. Simple as that. Honestly, though JT needs to get people with a true background in this problem and maybe a Ph.D. to make quotes instead of a friend or friend of a friend.