Amae: The type of Japanese parent’s love and care; “sacrificing themselves and doing anything they can for their children” described by Yamada (2010), which the author of this study introduced earlier, would be hard to understand for the Western parents and it is probably regarded as “spoiling” in the West. This unique way of loving or caring is called “amae” in Japanese language. Japanese psychiatrist Takeo Doi theorized the concept of amae (i.e., dependency) and he defined it as “denying the fundamental fact of separating self from others and attempting to sublate the psychological pain of separation” (Doi, 1971, p. 82). Doi argued that this psychological origin is attributed to the unique Japanese culture, where a relationship between mother and child is particularly close. According to Doi, “amae” has been always observed as a normal behavior in everyday life in Japan, though due to the modernization of Japanese culture, people repressed