The downside of Globalization: international divorce

[Taro Toporific]

Globalization of divorce: The downside of international romance turned sour
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Oct 15
...Tomoko returned to Japan with her son. Like most countries, U.S. law prohibits one parent from taking a child outside the country without the consent of the other parent. For this reason, Tomoko told her husband that she was only returning to Japan temporarily....
....In Japan she decided to seek a divorce and approached a local family court regarding divorce mediation. ..Takeshi (not his real name), 40, was charmed by a 24-year-old Filipino woman for her cute, demure manner. ....

[Greji]

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Globalization of divorce: The downside of international romance turned sour
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Oct 15
"....Four years ago Tomoko (not her real name) married John (not his real name)--an English-language teacher from the United States, whom she had been dating for one year.

Tomoko, now 32, who then attended a class at an English conversation school, fell in love with John, 35, for his positive outlook and straightforward way of expressing his love for her...."

Isn't it great how they pick the most abstract examples when posing this as a problem. Ones which no one would ever imagine. The poor J-girl always marries a Yank or Brit (usually an Eikaiwa teacher) that goes bad on them the moinute they leave the eternal protection provided by the shores of Mother Japan and the poor J-guy married (or is tricked into marriage by) a cute Filipina, that always turns out to be as a suprise to everyone, a lazy hooker.

Poor J-folks, what are they to do by this on-going foreign invasion endagering the superior form of personal values held by J-people.

Yomiuri is famous for providing such urban myths as basic truisms. Maybe 25-30 years ago, they published an article about the beigun living in Japan be so poorly paid and indicated we (I was still on active duty with the USAF at that time) were below the poverty level. Our children did not have clothes without holes or sewn patches on them. We had to send allotments of money to our parents because we came from low level poverty and the parents also could not live without support. There were some other basic allegations alleged to show that the US was sending nothing but its trash to Japan under the guise of a security treaty. It was your basic well documented J-reporting.

My wife was totally wired over this and wrote the editor a letter saying that not only was this rediculous, the newspaper was publishing out-right lies.

The editor (or one of his flunkies) wrote back saying that the reporter obviously had his own sources, so the staff could not comment on the accuracy of the article. In other words the word of the J-reporter on the beigun had to be more correct than that an actual member of the beigun.

I think that they still have the old belief that you must write what the J-populus wants to believe, because the J-populus do not want to hear, or can not be troubled with the truth if it is contrary to what they have been told or not consistant with their stereotypes.