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Survey: Nearly 1 in 5 Japanese Women Hate Their Husbands
Learn why — and why many say they’re resigned to it.
By Jay Andrew Allen
These days, heterosexual men making jokes about hating their wives has become a boomer trope. However, in Japan, one survey revealed that some women hold anywhere from a faint grudge to a burning hatred for their husbands. The question is: why?
Stuck due to money, the kids
The survey comes from Nomad Marketing Group in Japan. In a June 2024 Internet survey, they asked 3,000 married Japanese women, ages 30 to 59, what they thought of their husbands.
The good news: the majority kind of like the big dopes. 34.5% said they love their husbands, with 22.3% saying they somewhat love them.
Sadly, that still leaves a little under half of the respondents disappointed. A full 25.5% are middling on their spouses, saying they neither love nor hate them. However, 8.3% admitted at least a partial hatred of their husbands. A full 9.5% said they flat-out hate them.
That means 17.8% of all respondents — or nearly one-fifth — are in an unhappy marriage. And…
