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見合い Miai, 婚活 Konkatsu, Current Trends in Marriage in Japan? - TheTrueBlue - 2009-08-28
http://www.pripix.com/features/omiai.htm -
With any luck, your appointed spouse would wash regularly, not be entirely imbecile . . . and might even have a hint of personality. Couples really blessed would perhaps have an interest or two in common. As for good looks and romance, that was more than most young people approaching matrimony would dare hope for.
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Wall Street Journal 6/29/09
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124623617832566695.html -
Triumph International (Japan) Ltd. has unveiled a "konkatsu bra," with a clock under the bra cups that counts down to a marriage deadline. Inserting an engagement ring into the heart-shaped ring box between the cups stops the ticking and a congratulatory wedding march begins to play. (The ring isn't included. And the bra isn't for sale.)
The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, a Japanese professional baseball team, started offering "konkatsu seats" for a July game. The speed-dating plan is to have men and women sit next to each other during the game. Between innings, they will rotate seats and be seated next to someone else.
The trouble with the konkatsu movement is that women seem to be more eager about it than men are. While about 2,000 women rushed to secure the allocated 50 konkatsu seats on the first day of sales, it took several days to sell out the 50 male seats.
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I wonder how the Konkatsu are being compared to "herbivores" (http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=3612) or how the two ideas are being played, if at all out in conversation or debate in Japan.
Especially from the first article (top) it seems as if a great majority of the people involved in these processes are highly myopic in their criteria. Could this be a move away from more romantic conceptions of what finding a life partner towards a more cynical or pragmatic one? Or if not that, an ill-fated move towards many, many future divorces?
Speaking of which, I wonder how the divorce rate of 婚活 Konkatsu parties or computer enhanced 見合い miai compare to dating. Is a 成田離婚 less likely if the partners don't make >(X amount of) Yen or for some other reason can't immediately fly off to Hawaii?
And have any new ideas sprung up for why the popular attributes listed as desirable in these matching services are the 3 "H's" (Height, Higher Education, High Salary) for women and "age" only for men? Is it simply just that the women using these services feel they want a provider and that the guys are overwhelmingly ageist in their marital hopes?
見合い Miai, 婚活 Konkatsu, Current Trends in Marriage in Japan? - mentat_kgs - 2009-08-28
The links are in English. =/
Am I the only one disappointed?
見合い Miai, 婚活 Konkatsu, Current Trends in Marriage in Japan? - TheTrueBlue - 2009-08-28
mentat_kgs Wrote:The links are in English. =/Well this is an English language forum, I wouldn't want to exclude people simply because they aren't far along in their studies of Japanese.
Am I the only one disappointed?
見合い Miai, 婚活 Konkatsu, Current Trends in Marriage in Japan? - mentat_kgs - 2009-08-28
English language Japanese language learning forum. But let's not start a flamewar.
見合い Miai, 婚活 Konkatsu, Current Trends in Marriage in Japan? - TheTrueBlue - 2009-08-28
mentat_kgs Wrote:English language Japanese language learning forum. But let's not start a flamewar.Is there a Japanese version of this forum interface available?
All the system icons, links, and 95% of the threads are completely English but...
If this was supposed to be a forum also designed and maintaned for people learning English, it would perhaps be better to have it explicitly stated somewhere that such a resource is available, maybe a banner?
I for one would gladly welcome and encourage any measures to increase the number of active native Japanese speaking or advanced Japanese speaking forum-goers here.
Just 2 cents.
見合い Miai, 婚活 Konkatsu, Current Trends in Marriage in Japan? - masaman - 2009-08-28
Quote:It wasn't so long ago that the Japanese ideal was to be married by age 25, typically to someone handpicked by parents.Yea right.