Comments on: The Economics Of Marriage Hunting

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:17:00 +0000

I think it’s interesting that people are smarter for waiting for ideal circumstances before getting married and having children, but more naive in thinking they can get there in a traditional way.
People in every modern, industrial nation are finding out that in order to achieve the standard of living of 20+ years ago, usually both in a marriage need to work. But maybe the Japanese are more susceptible to tending toward traditional gendered ways of thinking?

By: Jonathan Harston

Jonathan Harston — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:05:00 +0000

“A majority of women hope to marry a man who has an annual income of $60,000 USD or higher (…) to be able to live comfortably”

Sponging parasites! Get a job! ;)

By: zoomingjapan

zoomingjapan — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:19:00 +0000

The pressure especially when you’re beyond the 25-year-mark is really woah!
I’m over 30 now and all my previous female Japanese co-workers who were about my age and younger are married by now. Some of them married rather quickly. Like they had no partner at all and suddenly after just a few months, they suddenly send a wedding invitation.
It’s crazy!

I don’t want to judge them, but I doubt that all of them found “their true love”.
It’s so sad that so many still feel that pressure and act accordingly. :(
At work it used to be “topic #1″.

As a foreign woman in Japan, I luckily don’t feel the pressure at all, although it feels strange that all female friends (who are all Japanese) are getting married. ^^

By: Mister Natto

Mister Natto — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:07:00 +0000

I love my virtual girlfriend, she helps me forget the monster I am married to.

By: Taco Tuesday Fool

Taco Tuesday Fool — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:00:00 +0000

Taiwan is a totally different beast when it comes to psychology. The running joke here is that you take a woman’s age and subtract 10 years, then you’ll know her mental maturity more or less. As for the men, it becomes scary…though military service seems to negate all of the constant hand-holding we received as boys. Hit or miss, you might say.

And forget about Sing, every other dude is nicknamed Benji. Why you ask? Because it’s all about the Benjamins!

By: Musouka

Musouka — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:04:00 +0000

I was watching the 結婚しない TV drama the other day and they mentioned that the ３高 is being replaced by the ３平 so I guess lots of people are facing up to the new realities.

This article says that ４低 might be the next big thing.

http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2134568625658326901