The Japanese government's reproduction of "ideal" citizens and marginalized "unideal" citizens

While the notions of women as wives and mothers are deeply rooted in Japanese people's minds and society, in 2013, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that he would start to perform structural economic reforms for the empowerment of women. The government wants women who get married, have families, produce children, work outside of home, and contribute to the Japanese economy. My thesis argues that this notion of "ideal" citizens has been created and prevailed by the Japanese government through their policies and social systems in order to maintain a heteronormative and homogenous society. This study addresses the effects of the koseki registry system, tax deduction system, surname choice system, and child care system that the government has installed. By analyzing the contents and influences of those systems, I argue how those systems have prevailed the norm of "ideal" citizens and how this heteronormative ideology has divided people who fit the norm from people who do not. In addition, I would like to argue how those systems have reproduced the class division by the system themselves.