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Originally Posted by jesselt

"The highest rate of divorce in the 2001 survey was 41 percent for men who were then between the ages of 50 to 59, and 39 percent for women in the same age group."

Taken from The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/health/19divo.html

Those are American numbers. On the other hand, the divorce rate for international marriages in Japan is 1 in 2.5 marriages according to the Japan times.

Personally, I wouldn't want to be in a position where I had to depend on my spouse to teach me everything from using the toilet to riding the subway. I'd do my best to become self sufficient in the foreign country of my choice before I'd consider marriage.

Of course that's just me. I'm hoping the OP has taken all facets of this serious commitment into consideration.