Why do Japanese women yearn for international marriage? In Japanese, international marriages have increased with the development of internationalization and globalization. Marriages between Japanese and foreigners in the 1960s are 4-5 thousand. The surge began in the late 1980s, exceeded 40,000 in 2005. However, it began to decrease after a peak of 4.47 million people in 2006. Foreigners in Japan is about 200 million people (alien registration number), the ratio of international marriages as compared to less than 2% of total population is quite high. To marriage foreigner of Japanese man has a reason. In an increasingly depopulated area it is going from wife shortage. And Japanese men ask their wife to focus on Asian countries. This is beneficial for both parties. Japanese men in countryside can find their wife. Women in developing countries can live in Japan. On the other hand, the reason Japanese women marry to a foreigner is admiration. Moreover, in this case marry foreign men are predominantly white or black not Asian. If Japanese woman marry to foreigner, they can live in Europe and America with the blonde husband. Their children are very cute because they are half. Husband must be active in housework and childcare. Most of Japanese women has image like this.

I found an interesting article. This is the article published by newspaper of China. International marriage has increased in recent years of Chinese and Japanese. A significant increase in cases, especially Chinese women marry in Japan. The newspaper cities the following four points about the effect of Chinese women marry in Japan. In the first it’s active birth. In Japan, the aging progresses, international marriage have played an important part of the Japanese marriage form. Couple number of births has increased every year during the day. Next that’s what made to stop the depopulation of rural labor. The minimum area of Yamagata Prefecture in the agricultural population is declining, according to statistics scholars, in 1989 were only 18 foreign. However, in 1995 most Chinese women were increased to 180 people. In addition, it plays an important role in international exchanges between China and Japan. In Yamagata Prefecture　the Chinese women put in effect “interpreters assisted living”. Married bride is faced with cultural differences in various scenarios. So, she eliminates the differences such as medical care, life and parenting. Finally, culture of China has to respect for their parents. And it appears that this effect can strengthen the bounds of the same family in Japan. In this way, international marriage sometimes has an important means.

by Saki Uetsuji