A Workshop for Women

Health

Comparing Japan to Your Home Country

Japanese woman’s average life span: 86.39 years old Number 1 in the world!France & Spain: 85 years oldUSA: 81 years old

Comparing Japan to Your Home Country

50 percent of Japanese women will get cancer

The risk is increasing year by year because of:(Increase in) fatty foodLate child-bearingLate menopause

Female DoctorsAvailable at:

あいかわクリニック Aikawa Clinic竹山病院 ( たけやまびょういん )Takeyama Hospital産婦人科 ( さんふじんか )Sanfujinka

Female:Male Doctors3:7 or 2:8

GynecologistsRegular visits are uncommon

Pap smear パップスメア子宮頸部細胞診 （しきゅさいぼしん）Cervical Cancer 子宮頸ガン（しきゅ

うけいがん）Adjusting to Japan

Menstrual CycleMood swingsPMS

STD Testing & ContraceptivesMost common in Japan: condomsFree AIDS/HIV TestingSTD Testing in Niigata?

Chlamydia is most common

Safety

Sexual Harrassment/SafetyTake the same precautions that you

would take in your home country!How can we prevent Sexual

Harrassment?What should we do if harrassment

occurs?Ask the person to stop.Move away, enlist the aid of onlookers.Report it.Do not blame yourself!

Special Deals…Just because you’re a woman

Lady’s DaysAeon Kameda, Mondays

1.000YenMikawa Ski Resort – Tuesdays

free for ladiesHot Pepper, 女子会 ( じょしかい）

Body Image

Sizeshttp://

www.onlineconversion.com/clothing_womens.htm (clothes)US 6UK 8France 36Germany 34Italy 40Australia 10Japan 9

Shoe Sizeshttp://

www.i18nguy.com/l10n/shoes.htmlUS 8UK 5 ½ Europe 38 ½Australia 6 ½Japan 24

Don’t expect the sizes to fit… (Even in your home country there are

discrepancies)

Food

Great Japanese CookbooksKurihara HarumiLee

GaslightingYou are not “Crazy”