Japan has placed strict gender roles in its traditional culture. Men were taught to be strong and fearless. They were encouraged to dominate children and women, and maintain complete control. Women in this culture, however, were taught to be reserved, submissive, and to obey their husbands and their male children. The Japanese also embrace the traditional idea of gender division where a man provides for his family and a woman stays at home doing housework and caring for the children. Women were in all ways subordinate to men, they were urged to live according to the saying "umeyo fuyaseyo" - produce more babies and increase the population. Women living under the Shogunate, did not exist legally. Women could not own property, and "...husband may kill his wife for being lazy or bad."