This is not really true. Especially in writing, "watashi" could be used by a man, though they don't use "I" and "you" the way we do. They drop it a lot.
It seems strange to me that the hospital room would be co-ed. Not impossible, but strange.
Even back in the bad TB days I think they had separate rooms, if not wards, necessarily. I read a memoir in Japanese by a Japanese author, so it's a bit fuzzy, but I'm sure she was rooming with women, because of the way she describes relationships with men taking place. This is in WWII days, or thereabouts.
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This is not really true. Especially in writing, "watashi" could be used by a man, though they don't use "I" and "you" the way we do. They drop it a lot.
It seems strange to me that the hospital room would be co-ed. Not impossible, but strange.
Even back in the bad TB days I think they had separate rooms, if not wards, necessarily. I read a memoir in Japanese by a Japanese author, so it's a bit fuzzy, but I'm sure she was rooming with women, because of the way she describes relationships with men taking place. This is in WWII days, or thereabouts.