- 24 May 2004
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Is it ok for a japanese person to marry a american person? My dad told me that japanese only marry other japanese people..
Japanese marriage
- Thread starter GoldCoinLover
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- 10 Apr 2004
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This one's going to get a lot of replies 
. Modern Japanese people are becoming more open to intercultural marriages, but many traditional ideas, such as keeping Japan and Japanese people pure, still remain. A hard core traditional Japanese father may want his son/daughter to only marry another Japanese person, but other fathers may not have any problem with an intercultural marriage.
. Modern Japanese people are becoming more open to intercultural marriages, but many traditional ideas, such as keeping Japan and Japanese people pure, still remain. A hard core traditional Japanese father may want his son/daughter to only marry another Japanese person, but other fathers may not have any problem with an intercultural marriage.
DoctorP
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jeisan said:
so true...I am one of them! Just as you would expect anywhere. There are people who probably look down upon it, but I have never run into a problem. My wife is from a small town in Kanagawa prefecture and the community really took to me. Here in Okinawa I know there are hundreds of mixed marriages, so I tend to believe that maybe it is not too big of a deal.
Maciamo
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Not only is it ok to marry Japanese people, but some of them (a minority though) want to get married only to Westerners. Rare are the young Japanese that wouldn't marry a foreigner. Nowadays, the opposite is maybe more common, especially with Europeans, as more and more of them do not want to get married, while Japanese are usually much more marriage-minded. It's also good to know that Americans have the highest rate of marriage and divorce in the world, so they are a bit out-league...
