Random cultural difference Number Two
Japanese women start off thinking the fact that their foreign boyfriends treat them like gentlemen means they will be even more weak than their seemingly gruff fathers who end up letting their wives make all the decisions.
Foreign guys start off thinking their Japanese girlfriends are more meek and submissive than their more obviously combatative and straightforward Western mothers.
Leave to stew for a few weeks, months or years, and let battle commence…