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To: JRI who wrote (201735)	11/2/2002 2:40:57 PM
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To: JRI who wrote (201735)	11/2/2002 5:40:20 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Wild career women falling over the edge By Ryann Connell Staff writer November 2, 2002 Career-oriented Japanese women in their 30s are going wild, according to Spa! (11/5). They're doing whatever they want with no consideration for others. From shutting themselves off from the rest of the world because of a failed relationship to "buying" teen-age gigolos and throwing hysterical fits of anger when posed with the most obvious of questions, it seems these women are totally out of control. "Growing numbers of women in their 30s are being brought to me by their employers, colleagues or relatives for counseling," psychiatrist Masaaki Tamura tells Spa! Akiko, as we'll call one 33-year-old is a prime example. She graduated from all the best schools, carried a swathe of special qualifications and, when she turned 30, could even brag of having dumped her "plain" boyfriend of seven years for one of the men instructing her as she studied for an MBA. "That guy ended up dumping her in a pretty horrible manner," one of her friends tells Spa! "It was the first time in her life she'd come across hardship. But she never stopped whining about it. She complained that her life had ended with the relationship." Eventually, Akiko shut herself off from the rest of the world, gaining a whopping 20 kilograms in months and smiled only whenever she played with her dog. Aiko, a 34-year-old known for her tough attitude toward male co-workers and ability to perform her job with exceptional coolness, suffers from a similar problem. "One night while we were out drinking, she said to me, 'Oh, aren't boys of about 15 great?' She told me about how she'd gone to Bangkok and bought herself a toy boy. 'Thai boys are great. They'll do anything for money," Aiko's co-worker tells Spa! Shrink Tamura says women like Akiko and Aiko are struggling to cope with their anxieties and fears in dealing with colleagues. "They try to use money to buy pliable little boys or focus their attention at will on cats or dogs as they try to satisfy their yearning for a sense of superiority," Tamura says. Other types of 30-something career women act selfishly because the gap between how they rate themselves and how others view them is too large. "(Chieko) studied at a junior college overseas for a couple of years and speaks English fluently. She thinks anybody who can't speak English is dumb. But that's all she can do. The company realizes it hired her only because she could speak English and now can't sack her," a workmate of the 32-year-old woman tells Spa!, adding that Chieko has a tendency to insult important clients and her immediate bosses. When she was told off for doing so, she claimed the shock was too great and stopped turning up for work. "Now everybody has to make sure that what we do doesn't hurt her."