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Around Forty, in short, Ara Four means a person is 36 to 44. “OMG I’ll be around forty next year!” Women under 35 is very tough position, either you’re married or not married.   “Obasan” means middle aged women in Japanese. Also pronounce the same as aunt. Most women can’t accept the fact you will be called this way.   20 years ago, above 30 is considered Obasan. Now though, because of so many both famous and unknown ordinary women keep themselves look young changes images of over thirty still young and beautiful.   You can look pretty good in thirties no problem but how about in 40’s? Around 40 is the challenging time for women. Especially in Japan, age matters. Women around thirty is getting nervous about whether if she will get married by early thirty or at least build a certain relationship to be married and have family together, well, sounds like kind of similar everywhere though. Because of long recession, its harder for young people to hav...

In Japan, we do "Oosouji" means "massive cleaning up". Maybe similar to spring clean in here. Dirty spot has a bad "Qi" and people live in the dirty house won't have a good luck. So from 1st of December, I try to dust off shelves, ceiling fan blades, wipe off dirty spots inside of the shelf doors.. Devote 15 minutes a day to clean up one spot, and hopefully by the end of the year, my house will look clean, and we'll have good luck in next year... So far, I've done most of the dusting off done. There were a lot of dust, I know I need to do this at least once every month or so, but I wouldn't do it. I was surprised when I saw a cleaning lady coming to my host family's house cleaning kitchen. I thought they must be really rich since in Japan, we don't see many people hiring maid to clean their house unless they are really rich. Later on, I learned in here middle income people casually hire maid to clean their house. I guess it...