Download or read book Japanese Woman written by Sumiko Iwao and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westerners and Japanese men have a vivid mental image of Japanese women as dependent, deferential, and devoted to their families--anything but ambitious. In fact, the author shows, Japanese women hold equal and sometimes even more powerful positions than men in many spheres.