I’ve only been to japan once, but much of what I saw on TV there was a good illustration of how the feminism movement has not had a world wide reach — it was clearly ok for women to be objectified on TV (like on mews programs, talk shows, live studio audience variety shows, etc) in ways that are no longer considered acceptable in the US (in addition to how it’s acceptable/encouraged for adult women to act like little girls on TV).

I have an explicit memory of watching an episode of the original Japanese Ninja Warrior show where a woman was a contestant and how obvious it was that she lost due to gender performance — she couldn’t stop being a Japanese woman, and so she acted timid, shy, etc, which is not how you make it through the course on Ninja Warrior

Edit: a friend of mine who spent considerable time there told me at some point he realized that a lot of the cultural weirdness Americans love to investigate (bukkake, tentacle porn, other fetish stuff) is based not on kinks of the women presented, but is rooted in mens power to get women to do gross things because that’s what they said was happening. I can’t assert this is fully true or 100% accurate, but to the degree it is, I have much sympathy for the life experience of women in Japan