In Japan, it is difficult to be the wife of the head of the local administration.
This is due to their geological characteristics.

Natural disasters are frequent in Japan. The residents remain without their homes. You have to live in surviving school gyms, boarding houses, etc.
Even in tent towns.

According to the established tradition, in such cases, the head of the local administration must temporarily move to the disaster zone with his wife. And you have to choose the worst place (if you have to choose between a motel and a tent, it has to move into a tent). There should be a minimum of officials.

A poor Japanese is sitting with his wife in a tent. Sleeping in the sleeping bag. The wife pulls the gas balloon, boils the bowl. Hokim, sitting riding on a twisted cage, holds meetings with the Emergency Committee. And the beauty around: fresh air, the ocean.

Is he long sitting on the roof? Until the last victim is resolved. Sensei leaves the tent town last.

In Japan, the issues of the victims are resolved very quickly. It’s not about Japanese efficiency. Just in ancient times someone wisely decided: to the place of disaster to send an official must be together with his wife.

Because the official himself, alone, can live in the tent for a long time: the sachet will pull, start to roast the strawberries, the girlfriend will pull, fishing will arrange. Take a vacation in nature. Went to Glory. This is already accepted (think that many would not refuse to live in a tent near the ocean for a week or two).

But this woman will not give such happiness. She will eat her husband with little bites: tired of torching in the tent, the children are waiting, finish things quickly, you need to go home. And the officer, breathing, resolves questions quickly.

A very wise man lived in antiquity. He knew that sending one official was useless. Only with wife. He knew life and people.