Comments on: Japanese Cohabitation Befuddles Ornery Adults

By: harold

harold — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 01:12:00 +0000

my girlfriend’s japanese, and despite having grown up outside of japan (in countries where mixed gender living arrangements are fine) since she was 11 she still strongly feels that guys and girls living together is weird (an attitude which she attributes to her being japanese). when i suggested to her that my housemates next year might be a mixture of both guys and girls, she started implying that what i was saying made her think worse of me. maybe some young japanese people are coming round, but her and her friends (who all grew up in big cities) all seem to stick fairly close to conservative values.

By: shiro

shiro — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:41:00 +0000

Many, many couples hold hands in Japan. I’ve even seen old granny and grampa couples doing it. It’s the cutest ever.

By: shiro

shiro — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:40:00 +0000

Obviously? Inevitable? Is this comment for real?

By: belgand

belgand — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:53:00 +0000

Before “marriage”? Huh? What on Earth is that?

My girlfriend and I have been living together for a decade, dating for 13 years and have absolutely no intention of ever marrying. We’ve been asked occasionally, but it’s pretty uncommon for anyone to say anything. Even our parents and grandparents only asked once or twice many years ago and even then it was only of the “are you ever planning on getting married?” sort rather than something more judgmental.

By: jgh

jgh — Tue, 28 May 2013 15:48:00 +0000

“wherefor” means “why” not “where”. Otherwise, she’d have said “where”.

By: jgh

jgh — Tue, 28 May 2013 15:45:00 +0000

Presumably, Japan didn’t have a post-war housing crises due to being bombed to smithereens? Almost all the people I know of my grandparents or great-grandparents generations lived together before getting married purely due to there being nowhere else! Often living at the in-laws while waiting for somewhere of their own to become available.