nically, this attitude has created a domestic matriarchy. The Japanese working world often requires 16-18 hour days away from home for the primary provider: the Japanese man rarely has the time to devote to household affairs. By default, and also because she has few other areas where she can concentrate her energies with society's approval, the Japanese female becomes the ruler of domestic life. In another ironic twist on Confucian ideals, this domestic arrangement has led to excessive dependence of the male child on the mother; a husband often expects to be treated like the wife's grown-up child. Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, observes: "it is generally accepted that women will have more will power and psychological strength than men, and there can be no doubt that the modern Japanese family centers around and is dominated by the mother, not the father. "
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