Well, I may have to recant, and doff my hat to the Feminists. PuddingMouse seems to have a point.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1206/p01s04-woap.html
But, if you look at the bottom of the article, marriages between Japanese women and non-Japanese men are relatively rare.
Quote:
....Mr. Right, as the hope goes, is often an American or European, a man appreciative of a wife's career and more of a partner in daily tasks.
"They treat you like equals, and they don't hesitate to express mutual feelings of respect - I think Western men are more adept [at such things] than Japanese men," says the 36-year-old Ms. Mizuguchi, who works at a top trading firm. "They don't act like women are maids - I think they view women as individuals."....
Well, if that's indeed what they think, we'll take it. No need to hunt for contradictory evidence.
After all, there is a familiar aphorism
James H Kabbler III wrote:
Heaven is an American salary, a Chinese cook, an English house, and a Japanese wife. Hell is defined as having a Chinese salary, an English cook, a Japanese house, and an American wife.