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There are now more than two dozen Japanese companies in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. Many Japanese families live now there. Kimiko Kinoshita Wood came from to Britain as a bride six years ago. There is much more freedom for women here, she says. It is sometimes difficult for Japanese women to adjust. For Kimiko, the change was easy because she is a translator and speaks English fluently. Also, she has an English husband. Attitudes to women are very different, she says. Japanese wives come to Britain and after a while they discover they can have a life of their own outside the home. They don’t have that kind of freedom in Japan.
In Japan it is unusual to see men shopping with their wives, helping in the house, or babysitting. But Kimiko’s husband John, a shipping engineer, happily lends a hand with the children. John says that Japanese husbands soon adapt in Britain, and seem to relax more with their families.
Education is one thing that worries Kimiko. In Japan, children go to school six days a week and work much harder than English children. Another complaint is that shops don’t have many clothes for small women.