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 Japan is the only one unique country where is such a difference yet between the married men and the bachelors.

It is only in Japan where the ages of young women are told in broad daylight.

Japanese are always happy, at least seem to be happy, because they rarely understand what love means.

One of the Japanese charms is in the fact that nothing, in Japan, from the matter of clothes to the matter of food, is ever enough.

Japanese women are turning nowadays from soft delicate pottery to cold hard porcelain. Although even in the former case they had to go through some fire, it is in the latter that a big fire is required and the painting on the surface will never appear so artistic as in the former case. The day for their indefinite charm of femininity or weakness as in pottery is already past. Rh