Mother's Job/ natsuko.I

My mother is 50 years old now. She is very beautiful, wonderful and also very funny person. She lives in Tokyo Japan. She works in children’s clothes shop with her sister. I love her mind because she always making people laugh, I am the only child of her. I respect her as woman and as a mother. So, I interview her.

What does the word women mean to you?

I don’t know what I can say, that is very difficult question isn’t it? Well, the most different thing is the power between woman and man. Then, if I said the woman mean, it is a maternal instinct, I think. Because women have a power of protect. That means men have fighting spirit and woman have a control power of that.

Can you tell me a story of a challenge you faced as a woman?

When you entered elementary school, I feel easier to work. I worked before also, but after you go to school, I decided to change of my job. I challenged to start new job in my work place with my sister. That was children’s clothes shop and I had a belief that my shop would have only imports. The biggest chance was imports children’s clothes shops were not a lot in that time. However, I hit a big problem. My sister and I can’t speak English. I wanted imports anyway, so we went to New York with coordinator and make a deal. Not only American clothes I got in European clothes. Those were all different from Japanese one. Especially color. And also, I got accessories, socks and bags, those were so cute. Then, a lot of your friend’s mothers came to buy goods in my shop. But, it was a not only good happening because that time we were in the bursting of the bubble. No matter in that time. Few years later, the high prices clothes couldn’t sell. Of course the imports goods were not cheap. Then, I did a second challenge that I replacement half of the clothes. We bought a many of clothes from Japanese company. So, many clothes could sell cheap price. Then, customers increased and boost sales. I bought nice and cheap things of my sense. I know what mothers want so, I successes my job.

However, finally she said the biggest memory and challenge was she has borne me.