Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。
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| If you want to know why Columbo, read through this post! なぜコロンボ？ |
If you like, or are interested in, Japan, you may know that Yoshihide Suga was elected as the new Japanese prime minister a few days ago, but do you know that Suga was the "wife" of Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister?
Of course, Suga was not Abe's real wife but was the chief cabinet secretary or "nyoubou" or "wife" of prime minister under the Abe administration.
The chief cabinet secretary is equivalent to the US White House chief of staff, and both Japanese chief cabinet secretary and US White House chief of staff support the leader of each country, but why called "wife" only in Japan?
The biggest problem is that nobody seems not to notice that this is discriminatory. A reporter, who he himself considers "liberal," called Suga "Abe's wife" in a "liberal" news program... Or should we be happy because this is women's empowerment, promotion of a "wife," generally female, to the top of the country?
By the way, Japanese has the following ways of calling "wife" and "husband":
| Wife | Husband | Remarks |
| Tsuma or sai | Otto | - Your spouse - Relatively neutral |
| Yome | Muko |
- Your spouse - Relatively neutral - Meaning also your daughter/son-in-law |
| Okusama or okusan | Dannasama or dannasan |
- The spouse of another - With a little respect |
| Nyoubou | Teishu | - Your spouse or the spouse of someone close to you |
| Kanai | Shujin | - Your spouse when speaking to someone not close to you |
| Kamisan | ??? |
- Your wife or the wife of someone close to you - Relatively casual |
Columbo often mentioned his wife in a long-running television series "Columbo (1968–2003)," currently on air again in Japan, and his famous line "My wife....." is translated into "Uchino (my) 'kamisan'" in the Japanese dubbed version. My dad calls my mom "My enemy"🤣...
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「女房（役）」という言葉、まだ使われています。「報道１９３０」っていう一応リベラル（定義はさておき）な番組で、菅さんのことがそう呼ばれてました。多分意識してないと思います。それとも、女房（女）が国のトップに出世したからいいのかな？ どっちなんでしょう｡｡｡
日本って「wife」に当たる言葉がたくさんありますよね。妻、嫁、奥さん、女房、家内、かみさん等々。コロンボは「かみさん」でしょ。うちの父は母を「敵」と呼んでいます🤣
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