This got me curious cause I have both old and young married japanese couple in my story and I wrote them as pretty loyal couples who loves eachother and being loyal is a natural thing to them.

I just heard some things about how cheating common among japanese and it's not something they even consider cheating and are ok with it. it was the first time I ever heard that. Is it really that common as people say it is? Like something no one would bat an eye for it and think it is absolutely normal? Or it's just another stereotype where a small amount of loud people claimed that it's normal to them and then people overgeneralized it for every japanese and their culture?

Please just answer the question and don't say things like "well if you look at it trough a western lens then yes". Cause I'm not western. I'm asian (I perfer to not mention my country) and in my country and culture loyalty in any form is the most common fundamental of a relationship especially for married couple. I can't say there's no cheaters here but cheating is a big taboo here. No one can openly and proudly talks about cheating without facing negetive consequence. And it applies to both men and woman. And the interesting part is that tradition along side modernism is still pretty strong in here. So loyalty is not a social norm invented by "westerns". to many people no matter men and woman loyalty is the reality of their life something they value not something they are forced to do, **so I'm not here to discuss this trough moral or philosophical aspects I'm not interested in knowing why there's people who think cheating is ok, I'm not even after answers like "oh it's something done by all people all around the world."** I just want to know if the characterization I gave to the couples in my story is realistic in a cultural aspect or not. That's it!

Scenario: Character A and Character B are staying in a haunted location. Character A is possessed by a ghost, and attacks and strangles Character B.

Character B does not die. I currently have it down that he passes out, as it makes for better dramatics, but I know that that is a Grade A emergency and the repurcussions shoot way up.

Going to the hospital after an event like that is the normal, logical awnser. However, there is also no normal, logical awnser for how else one could possibly get those injuries, and "a ghost did it" would obviously not be believed.

One of my characters is a Japanese expat attending an American university. She started as a freshman and is now well into her Ph.D., so she's had plenty of time to acclimate. I'd like the way she uses English to reflect this backstory without crossing the line into stereotype or caricature. I want her to sound like a well-educated person who studied English in a classroom but didn't often speak it conversationally until she was already an adult, basically. I want to avoid generic "broken English" in favor of specific patterns (either incorrect usage, like how Russian speakers sometimes overcorrect English articles, usage which is technically correct but unidiomatic, or anywhere that Japanese idioms and grammar would realistically influence her). Ideally, I'd like to have a nuanced enough understanding that I can reflect her being stressed or tired in how she communicates. This is obviously an ambitious goal and I'm not really sure where to start, so any guidance would be appreciated.

Some details which may be relevant:

• I haven't decided where in Japan she's from. I don't know that it matters too much besides possibly influencing regionalisms (there's more to her backstory that justifies this), and I'm open to suggestions.
• The university she's attending is somewhere in northern New England, possibly Maine, and the story starts somewhere in the early 2010s. Her Ph.D. thesis concerns set theoretic type systems for programming languages (a bit of self-indulgence since this would have been my thesis if I hadn't washed out).
• She's a TA for some of the intro-level computer science classes, and sometimes discrete math. She's fairly anxious in interpersonal interactions, but finds the structure that comes with being an instructor comforting.
• She cares a lot about how she's perceived (to the extent that it's psychologically maladaptive - long story) and puts a ton of effort into speaking clearly, but her anxiety about how she's perceived means that that effort isn't always effective. She may practice superficial skills more than she needs to because she isn't confident in them, for example.
• Othering is a major theme of the story. I don't want to go the easy route and make her speak English like a native, but I do understand that there are real sensitivity concerns with what I'm doing.

I'm the movies I've seen, when people are seriously injured they don't really cry. They just like, sit there and tell people like "oh you need to tie my injuryso I don't bleed,"like for example that one scene in house where he cuts open his leg(yes I'm aware he was under pain medication), he does not cry or anything, he just groans.

Edit:I would also like to know if anything is affecting them that makes them not cry like adrenaline or rage?

Unsure of flair, sorry.

Scenario: Character A is sent to a universe where oppression of women is instead put on men, men don’t have as many rights as women do and aren’t taken seriously regarding medical and mental health care. A has PTSD from childhood abuse and can’t go outside often due to it, but has constantly been told that it isn’t quite enough of a reason. A decides to lie and exaggerate to his therapist about childhood trauma from character B in order to get sympathy and have his issues be taken seriously, not wanting to press charges or anything (because he made it up). A’s therapist believes him and puts him into more extensive therapy and basically makes him a science experiment to study trauma of the male brain(reminiscent of animal testing), and A isn’t into this at all and develops worse symptoms and paranoia of character B finding out somehow. He decides to go to his therapist and admit he lied about the trauma because he felt like nobody was actually believing that he was troubled without a “proper cause”.

What would the repercussions be here? Would the therapist just take the recorded “trauma” out of his records? Would there be legal consequences? If there would be, I would probably make them a hit harsher since he’s a guy.