Hey all,
So I'm planning to maybe move to Japan to be with my boyfriend. I'm currently at the stage where I'm not sure if I could see myself living there forever, however they could change as I might grow to love the country. But I have so many issues with how Japan treats women, the huge inquality, work culture issues for women or just in general, as well as sexual harassment, stalking, nanpa (people approaching you in public to hit on you relentlessly) and chikan (sexual harassment on trains). There's just an endless number of issues that I believe exist there that i'm not really sure if I can come to terms with.
However i'd really like to live my with boyfriend and start a family at some point, but have no idea how to even come to terms with navigating my feeling around those subjects, as well as feeling incredibly uncomfortable with the idea of raising a child in the japanese schooling systems. Basically, I want to live with my partner but have no idea how to solve my feelings about those aspects of the country yet. I've never lived there so maybe my thoughts will change, but was wondering if you guys could provide some advice.
Just some additional stuff, my partner and I have talked about just loading up our children we would have with as much western ideals but i'm still so worried about issues that they would and that I would face also. They also talked about taking intiative with trying to have preventative measures or other things like safely technologies that women use here to fight against these issues, however yeah, we both agreed that it still just prevails and exists, so we don't know how to navigate it. Any guidance would be great, like maybe the country itself and all it has to offer might outweigh these struggles but I just really dislike aspects like this. Also it should be noted that i'm Japanese but never lived there. Thanks.
by Few-Quantity2867