What Japanese women want: a Western husband
By Bennett Richardson, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor DECEMBER 6, 2004
TOKYO — The Japanese government wants women like Taeko Mizuguchi to get married and start doing something about the nation's plunging birthrate. But she's not interested.
At least, not if her prospective husband is Japanese.
A growing number of Japanese women are giving up on their male counterparts, and taking a gamble that looking abroad for love will bring them the qualities in a partner that seem rare at home. Mr. Right, as the hope goes, is often an American or European, a man appreciative of a wife's career and more of a partner in daily tasks.
Japanese women marry:
Koreans 2,235
Americans 1,529
Chinese 890
British 334
Filipinos 117
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