The question of ‘Loser Dogs’ has been hotly debated in Japan since Sakai Junko’s bestselling volume of essays “The Distant Howl of the Loser Dogs,” prompted the coining of the new term to refer to unmarried, childless women over thirty. Almost concurrently in neighbouring China, debate has centered around the question of ‘Winning Dogs’ - marital relationships and what it means to be a ‘wife’ – largely due to a television drama serial called “Chinese-style Divorce”.
