Hokkaido woman is violent?

These blogs are in Japanese, but the pictures are beautiful and you can enjoy just seeing them. Kyoto blog, Japanese sweet "wagashi" blog and idyll blog that appeals to Japanese nostalgic feelings (I was born in Tokyo, but I feel it.)

Hmm, some crazy Japanese may have made this Trojan. Apparently this is similar to the "Haruhi Virus"...orz.

A few years ago, a guy wrote his complaints about his lazy, scary wife. And the blog became a book and TV drama. It was a kind of success story that web 2.0.brought to us and actually we felt it was just his bragging, so I laughed to see the post was linked to this "domestic violence link."

I found the article on Hokkaido local news. There are 16 "Spousal Violence Counseling and Support Centers" in Hokkaido. In 2006, they got 1668 calls and 42 (2.5%) of them were from husbands. They confessed some violent problems like their wives kicked and punched them, or threw something at them. And also they said there were mental attacks like their wives loudly complaining or casting out their stuff, especially what they liked and cared about. Compared to other areas in Japan, 2.5% is higher and also the rate is increasing every year in Hokkaido.

They suppose this might come from the history of Hokkaido. Hokkaido was known as Ezochi until the Meiji Restoration and it was just 160 years before when Hokkaido was developed in earnest. When they developed the land, men and women worked together fairly. Because of such history, Hokkaido is said to be the most gender-equal area in Japan.

That is interesting, but I am not sure 2.5% is high or not. And it means Hokkaido women tend to be violent more than others? Because of their equality of the sexes idea, we might think Hokkaido men would use counseling more easily than men in other areas. Actually, some research said 46.9% of DV victim wives used counseling but 84.4% of husbands didn't tell anybody when they experienced violence from their wives. Men hesitated to tell their domestic problems.

Comments

[Marco Bresciani]

Hello... a little OT with respect to this post...

Here you can find a list of "Japan's top thirty emoticons". :-) Nice!
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2006/08/14/japans-top-thirty-emoticons/

bye bye and thank you again for your nice blog!

[snowfox]

Hokkaido woman is Not violent.

It's just Hokkaido men report about the incident, more than other men.

Being "Married", I also been subjected to "silence" violence.

Sometime it's punches, other time, it's crying crying just to get her way, and no other ways.

Treasured item are given away to other, with her blessing, and my lack of knowledge.

It was either joining her in her social circle or nothing else. The she walk out of the marriage was the day I attended the community volunteer programme.

It;s not a Hokkaido woman is violent thingy, but some women are brought up thinking that men are violent. And they are just pre-anticipate and "strike" First.

Marriage is a Product of Love, let it be Loving, There bound to have items that are not prefect, discussion and compromises are the way. Not Emotional Blackmail.