Community Page readers respond to Satoko Kogure's article on gender equality in Japan (May 3) and Vanessa Mitchell's piece on the lack of aid resources for sex crime victims (May 17) in Japan

Japanese women enjoy a leisure life that their salaryman husbands can only envy.

After the kids start school, the affluent middle-class housewife can start her life of tennis lessons, ikebana practice, cooking school, conversation classes and shopping trips with other leisure-minded housewives.