Japan is a lie. So is Anime and Tokyo city itself. I know you visited Tokyo for a week, Mako-chan, but you never saw what Japan did not want you to see. There is no equality here. Women are supposed to be housewives and men are rulers of their domain. Most of you remember me sending out an email about my Japanese prison. Well, now it is a nation-wide penetentiary. I learned this the hard way.

Last week, my host father (Seiji Hirata) tried to beat me after he said I was acting "too willfully". So, in some half-assed attempt at emergency maneuvers, Fukuyama Daigaku (Fukuyama University)has sent me to live with a new host family. Hirata Seiji-san was angry that I drank a beer. He said that women do not drink unless they are depresed or whores. But it is okay for men to drink because they work all day long. *rolls eyes*

My new host family's mother, Ishii Noriko drinks all the time, but I think it is only to mask her boredom for life. The daughter, Kumiko, she is also pressured to drink and stays at home most of the time, never going out. Hell, I don't even think she has any friends. She is 2 years my elder (27)

So here it is. My new short-time prison. I have never been patriotic to America before, nor will I ever be. But I appreciate it's gerneral comforts in that it allows strong females like me to be something other than a housewife or bankclerk or low-level teacher.

I do have letters and postcards for you all with 'kawaii' little stamps and stickers with Japanese writing on them, but I am almost tempted to burn them out of a deep seeded anger.

So this is my thesis; Japan is a lie.

Anime women characters are created to satiate the needs of horny Japanese men or lonely surpressed Japanese women giving false hopes to small Japanese girls.

Also, I will NEVER come back to Japan for any reason unless it is to bash Hirata Seiji's face in like he tried to bash in mine.

Oya oya... what I wouldn't give for a nice violent episode of the Sopranos right now.

It's time for sleep. Oyasuminasai, Mina-san.

-UtenaSama