r/AmITheA**hole OP is an American girl who speaks Japanese, and she's married to a guy of Japanese descent who doesn't speak Japanese, but his parents do. OP's husband starts demanding that she call him the Japanese term for "honored husband," even around his parents. OP refuses because it's extremely cringey and inappropriate, which causes her husband to su ... Show More
Aug 2023
'Of White Ashes' follows a Japanese-American love story after the WWII internment
Author Kent Matsumoto's parents both lived through traumatic experiences during WWII: his mother was forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans in the U.S., and his father survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In a new novel, Of White Ashes, Matsumoto and his wife ... Show More
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Feb 2024
Misogyny and Yukio Mishima, Part 2
In part two of this two-part episode on misogyny in Japanese literature, we're talking about the life and work of Yukio Mishima, especially by way of his I-Novel, Confessions of a Mask.Check out part one for400 years of attitudes about women in JapanWoman in modern Japanese ... Show More
39m 40s
Mar 2022
Ep. 59 "Ennie Meenie Miney Ho"
This week the ladies first started off discussing the crazy weekend our girl Tambam got into, and even though it is very hilarious, she’s not too proud of herself but not too ashamed to do it again! Moreover, the ladies also get into some "dumb internet sh*t" and discussed more a ... Show More
50m 12s
Feb 2024
Misogyny and Yukio Mishima, Part 1
In part one of this two-part episode, we're talking about misogyny in Japanese literature. 400 years of attitudes about women in JapanWoman in modern Japanese literature, especially in the work of some of its most important writersCheck out part two (coming soon) for the lif ... Show More
46m 38s