Tenchu, why don't you just dump your Bible crap over to benighted Japanese? That is, after you're done with Mormon paedophiles, of course....(*)
Japanese Women Confront Domestic Violence
By Yukiko Tsunoda
Yukiko Tsunoda was a visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan Law School in 1995. She is also a practicing attorney in Japan, specializing in gender discrimination and domestic violence.
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In Japan, domestic violence is so pervasive that it is considered a normal part of marriage, never recognized as a serious social problem, and lacking even an appropriate term in the Japanese language. Moreover, battered women have been deprived of any social institution where they can confront domestic violence.
In order to effectively combat domestic violence, we must closely examine why our society has ignored or denied this issue. The most important reason is that in Japan men and women are not equal socially, economically or politically, in both private and public life. This inequality reflects the strong patriarchal structure of the family and society as a whole. Once a woman marries, she becomes a member of her husband’s family. As a result, she is considered a possession of her husband, sometimes even a possession of her husband’s family. Many Japanese use the verbs of giving and obtaining when referring to a bride. Japanese courts and many major legal scholars support this concept of possession of a wife, affirming that marital rape is not a crime, or a rape at all, but simply the exercise of the legal power of a husband. This concept of possession has also been strengthened by the extremely precarious economic status of women, who typically earn half the income of men. This unequal status continues despite a constitution which clearly guarantees equality between the sexes.
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(*) Manhunt for the Mormon with 70 wives
By Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
Belfast Telegraph - Belfast, Ireland
He's a controversial cult leader in Arizona with a reputed 70 wives - and now he's a hunted man with a $10,000 reward on his head.
The search for Warren Jeffs, the 49-year-old self-proclaimed prophet and president of the 10,000-member Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, marks the first time that Arizona has offered a reward for information leading to the capture and arrest of a fugitive, and it could mark the end of America's long-tolerated polygamist sects.
The FBI is also searching for Mr Jeffs on a federal warrant for "unlawful flight to avoid prosecution".
Mr Jeffs vanished several months ago from his palatial home in Colorado City, a secretive polygamist community with a population of about 5,000 that straddles the Utah-Arizona border.
His church, which has had absolute control over the town, stands accused of forcing teenage girls to marry elders as rewards for loyalty, and of driving young men away from their homes and families to thin out the male population. Women are taught from infancy to be subservient or to suffer eternal damnation.
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