My husband died in Japan. What does my wife do for a living?

As we all know, Japan is a country with heavy male chauvinism. In our traditional concept, Japanese couples are usually men and women, and women play the role of housewives after marriage, so women's social status in Japan is relatively low. The relatively high price level in Japan means that men need to bear great pressure and work hard to earn money to support their families. In other words, a wife is totally dependent on her husband, and losing her husband is equivalent to losing the source of family income.

It has been said that Japanese women will become housewives after marriage. The so-called housewife must have no job and no income. Then housewives who have lost their husbands need to move on. They must find their own way out. Japanese civil law stipulates that once the spouse dies, the woman can apply for the dissolution of the marriage relationship, sever all ties with the man's family and have no obligation to help the man's family support the elderly. ?

Relatively speaking, divorce is equivalent to the rebirth of Japanese housewives. They can work again, have their own income, reintegrate into society, become free people, and are no longer bound by their families. Moreover, they can also get part of their husbands' inheritance to support their living according to the law. In addition, these women can choose to remarry, join another family, return to their old jobs and become housewives. In addition, Japanese women will be taken care of by the government when they divorce. Welfare houses are almost free of rent, especially single mothers, who can enjoy this welfare well. ?

Everyone has his own choice. How to spend the rest of my life after my husband's death and how to support myself are all issues that need to be considered. But we don't have to worry about how Japanese housewives will live after losing their husbands. In Japan, where women's status is low, it may be a relief for them to suppress human nature for their families.