Family relationship in Japan

Japanese typical family is formed by mother who don’t have her job to stay home and make effort to keep house clean, cooking nice food to keep family healthy, control family member’s finance, and father who is hardworking to earn enough money for his family, and he doesn’t do housework at home, usually father has strong power to control their children or family finance. In American movie, family members say ‘thank you’ or ‘I love you’ to each other, but in Japan, they don’t say such words to their family. They thank to their family very much really, but they tend to hide their feelings. But on special day, such as mother’s day, or father’s day, they show their appreciation and say ‘thank you’ from their heart. It is very moving because we don’t show our feeling usually. Most of Japanese children start to live alone when they enter a university. They lend an apartment room by themselves. Room share is rare in Japan, and the parents usually give them money to manage the tuition and living finance. Maybe, it’s different from American students; most of Japanese universities’ students are depend on their parents in terms of finance. I wrote about my family relationship, and I think it’s somewhat different from typical Japanese family, and the image of typical family is now changing because the increase of women who works out of their home, so there are many families which both father and mother is working. In this case grandma or grandpa takes care of their children. My mother stayed home always but I had many friends who cannot see their mother only short time in evening. I don’t know which better family is; however I’m happy to be born as my family member. haha, thank you for reading.