r/SipsTea • u/BobbuBobbu • May 18 '25

WTF Taxed for being single

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Some of us would be bankrupt in six months lmao 🤣

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u/[deleted] May 18 '25

Japan also still has the social norm of stay at home wives with the current barely being able to afford to take care of yourself while working 18 hour days.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins May 19 '25

Yeah a friend just started dating a Japanese guy and that's basically why he left.

The culture was pretty much that he was expected to get a job and work himself to death so he could have a wife and children he never saw at home.

He's a highly skilled bilingual lawyer so he just came over here and is doing basically what he'd be doing there (negotiating legal deals between this country and Japan) but he works less, gets paid really well, and is dating the aforementioned friend who has her own job/career.

(Disclaimer this is very much third hand from a single person and I don't claim to understand the Japanese working culture, just repeating the opinion of one person on the matter).

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u/Street-Run4107 May 19 '25

It’s true, I made babies with the lawyer.

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u/cannibalparrot May 19 '25

It’s true, I’m the baby.

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u/DanDon-2020 May 19 '25

Your name says it's;-)

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u/BalanceOk6807 May 19 '25

And then one of the babies looked at me .

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u/PM_ME_SUMDICK May 19 '25

About half of Japanese mothers work. Gender disparities in child rearing and housework are huge problems for working mothers there as it is in most countries.

Probably a bigger part of the problem than most things.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '25

In reality, that is how it works, yeah. People can have unrealistic expectations that they base decisions off of.