The Number of International Marriages of Japanese
In association with previous post, I'll tell you about the first Japanese aristocratic man who got married officially and regally. His name was Sadasuke Minami, who was the member of the Choshu Domain, a feudal domain of Japan during the Edo period (1063-1867). He went to England to study. Once he came back to Japan, he visited England again in 1971 and met British woman Liza Pitman. Unfortunately they divorced 10 years later, because she couldn't get used to life in Japan.
Along with the internationalisation, the number of international marriage of Japanese increased rapidly but it has dipped after peaking in 2006. Some reasons were possibly that it has established strict controls over sham marriages, the number of marriageable age has decreased with falling birth rate maybe, the influence of the economic downturn? I don't know, but marriage itself has continued to fare poorly in Japan.
Along with the internationalisation, the number of international marriage of Japanese increased rapidly but it has dipped after peaking in 2006. Some reasons were possibly that it has established strict controls over sham marriages, the number of marriageable age has decreased with falling birth rate maybe, the influence of the economic downturn? I don't know, but marriage itself has continued to fare poorly in Japan.
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The Number of International Marriage of Japanese
Data Source; Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 'Vital Statistics' |
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