Overheated International Marriages in East Asia

[dando]

I have disclosed the column "Seemingly Overheated International Marriages in East Asia" on the following sites. (Japanese Blog Review 5)

"Japan Research and Analysis"
http://dandoweb.com/e/
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[dimwit]

My own observation about international marriage failures would be that a large number occur because the participants have no business getting married lacking either the maturity, compatablity, temperment or mutual respect.

[Greji]

My own observation about international marriage failures would be that a large number occur because the participants have no business getting married lacking either the maturity, compatablity, temperment or mutual respect.

I think that fits any marriage, international or not!

[Ketou]

38% for Japanese/Japanese
40% for Japanese wife/FG husband
43% for Japanese husband/FG wife

Hardly seems a large enough difference to warrant the title.

I'd like to see the revised figures in 2008! Large numbers of retirees coupled with the new laws giving the spouse half of the husbands nenkin. Spike time me thinks.

[Greji]

Spike time me thinks.

Spike is probably an under statement. If just a portion of the stories circulated around the J-business groups are true, space needle comes to mind as a better term.

Apparently there are a bunch of mamasans dumping pops at taishokin time and booking for Bali and sights unseen. A lot of former bigtime business growlers are now found crying in their beer/shochu at the local akachochin, while their reborn mamachans are sunning on the beach and doing beach boys at a pace that would make the yellow taxis of old envious!

[dando]

The divorce is in the decreasing tendency in Japan. Please look at the following sites if you can read Japanese.

http://dando.exblog.jp/2962495/

[homesweethome]

The divorce is in the decreasing tendency in Japan. Please look at the following sites if you can read Japanese.

I am not sure Dando, but you seem to be saying divorce in Japan is directly 'related' to the 'Korean Love Syndrome" and Yon Chan?

Nice amusing bit of astrology though.

Must have taken you an hour, or maybe two, to write up all those replies in your blog.

[Captain Japan]

In Japan, a yen among women for `Seoulmate'
Metromix

TOKYO -- Thin and gorgeous in a slinky black dress and Mikimoto pearls, with a diamond Tiffany pendant, 26-year-old Kazumi Yoshimura already has looks, cash and accessories. There's only one thing this single Japanese woman says she needs to find eternal bliss--a Korean man.

She may just have to get in line. In recent years, the wild success of male celebrities from South Korea--sensitive men but totally ripped--has redefined what Asian women want, from Bangkok to Beijing to Taipei to Tokyo. Gone are the martial arts movie heroes and the stereotypical macho men of mainstream Asian television. Today, South Korea's trendsetting screen stars and singers dictate everything from what hair gels people use in Vietnam to what jeans are bought in China.

Yet for thousands of smitten Japanese women like Yoshimura, collecting the odd poster or DVD is no longer enough. They've set their sights far higher--settling for nothing less than a real Seoulmate.

Yoshimura signed up last year with Rakuen Korea, a Japanese-Korean matchmaking service, to find her own Korean bachelor. And she is hardly alone. More than 6,400 female clients have signed up with the company, which says its popularity has skyrocketed since 2004, when "Winter Sonata" became the first of many hot Korean television dramas to hit Japan. Even in Shinjuku ni-chome, Tokyo's biggest gay district, niche bars with names such as Seoul Man have sprouted.

"South Koreans are so sweet and romantic--not at all like Japanese guys, who never say `I love you,"' Yoshimura said as she waited for her blind date, a single Korean man, in the 50th-floor bar of a chic Tokyo skyscraper. A telephone operator who lives with her parents in Hiroshima, she has spent thousands of dollars on her quest for a Korean husband, flying to Seoul 10 times in the past two years and bullet-training to Tokyo for seven blind dates with Korean men....more...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Wait till Ms. Yoshimura gets some douche bag named Park coming home at three in the morning after four bottle of Jinro with his "seniors" looking for love. I wonder how she'll feel after getting smacked around for not putting out for his drunk ass. Maybe she'll get lucky an get another pearl necklace after two and a half minutes of hot Korean love.

[Takechanpoo]

Thin and gorgeous in a slinky black dress and Mikimoto pearls, with a diamond Tiffany pendant, 26-year-old Kazumi Yoshimura already has looks, cash and accessories.

But in fact unfortunately apparently they are remains.

[Tsuru]

Wait till Ms. Yoshimura gets some douche bag named Park coming home at three in the morning after four bottle of Jinro with his "seniors" looking for love. I wonder how she'll feel after getting smacked around for not putting out for his drunk ass. Maybe she'll get lucky an get another pearl necklace after two and a half minutes of hot Korean love.

Good it's not just me thinking that