TOKYO — To explain the pressure felt by women in Japanese society, the novelist Mieko Kawakami recalls a playground prank from elementary school. The boys would run around and flip up the skirts of certain girls to catch a glimpse of their underwear....
Yet it was just as shameful for the girls whose skirts didn’t get flipped.“ It meant you weren’t popular, ” said Kawakami, 43, the author of “ Breasts and Eggs, ” a best-selling novel in Japan that was published in English in April....
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2020-05-09 00:00:00.0