FInal Project; International Marriage By Makiko and Sayuri

Hello, everyone! We are Sayuri and Makiko, researching about International Marriage.

The reason why we choose this topic

We thought that there are more international couples recently than the past. And we found the statistics that shows the increase of the number of international marriages.

But still, that wasn’t THAT big number compare to our expectation. (http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/honkawa/1190.html) It was also much less than Korea. (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%BD%E9%9A%9B%E7%B5%90%E5%A9%9)

Why?

To find out the reason why the Japanese people don’t really get international marriage that often, we decided to make a survey.

Thanks for the today’s technology, we made a survey on the internet and spread it on Facebook and Twitter. And thanks for our sweet friends, we got 126 answers! 

The questions on the survey were:

1.    Do you want to get married?

2.    Do you want to get International Marriage?

3.    What is the obstacle to International Marriage?

4.    What is your expectation for International Marriage?

Q1



 Obviously a lot of people want to get married.

Q2

“No” is more than “Yes.”
Why do Japanese don't want to get an international marriage?
So we made next question.

Q3

Most people chose "difference of habit" as a obstacle. Tha's ture, we can expect easily.

But there are a lots of internatinal coulples now and there must be the positive side!

Let’s go to the next question.

Q4

The answers varied widely. But that means that there are more reasons than the choices that we’ve make, doesn’t it?

The interesting thing that we focused on was the comparison with the choice “language barrier” in Q3 and the choice “language skill” in Q4. This seems like a inconsistency but we don’t think so. We can learn a very important thing from this. All things have both the bad side and the good side…, AN OBSTACLE COULD BE THE EXPECTATION!

Conclusion

The percentage of International Marriage is still very low like, around 5%.

And according to our survey, not many people want to get International Marriage.

HOWEVER,

We still think that the percentage of International Marriage will increase.

The reason why we expect so is;

-There are more foreign people living in Japan, recently.

-Increasing number of studying abroad and overseas travels creates more opportunity for Japanese people to meet and fall in love with foreigner.

-Comics, Movies and TV programs about International Marriage, like "ダーリンは外国人" help creating the atmosphere of accepting International Marriages.

-To solve the problem of depopulation, what about asking foreign people’s help?