Japanese marmade (sea women on south Boso)

Diving for shellfish has traditionally been women's work in Japan for around 1,500 years since women can withstand the cold better than men because of the different distribution of fat under the skin.
They dive into the ocean water to gather various shellfish, seaweed, etc, without using any underwater diving equipment.
Japanese marmade (ama in Japanese) is a shellfish diver in Shirahama's Nojimazaki district on the tip of the Boso Peninsula, 100 kilometres (62 miles) southeast of Tokyo.

Shirahama's ama still earn the money in the May to September season, a substantial extra income for these women whose main livelihood these days is farming rice, broad beans and flowers.
However, young women today don't like the sea as much as ama do, today's womn lack courage and don't want to get their skin darkened by working in the water or the fields.
New things should appear and old things will disappear with the times.


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