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steven (Offline)
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06-17-2010, 12:50 AM

"Without some region specific study claims like this are nothing more than limited personal experience being passed off as conclusive evidence. "

That is how all this stuff should be looked at. I agree with that very much... I also think you'd be hard pressed to find statistics on this stuff as I feel like most poeple would be reluctant to say they've cheated, even if it was anonymous.

It also depends on what you call cheating, as people have pointed out.

Here are some statistics that I found:
Young Japanese views on marriage, children and divorce: part 2 of 3 | 世論 What Japan Thinks
Check out the data at the bottom of the page. It is interesting to note that infidelity, according to this survey, is not the biggest thing a divorce would be considered by.

Secrets to be kept from your Japanese girlfriend | 世論 What Japan Thinks
Take a look at this one-- how about the "I'm still in contact with my ex" and "I've been asked out and gone drinking with a man/woman".

That is just Japanese data, but it's interesing to note that cheating does seem to play a role in a large percent of Japanese peoples' lives-- at least the people surveyed.

This is just my perception of the situation, but I think cheating is in fact quite common in Japan. It doesn't always seem to have the same repercussions as it does in America, either. I have heard of some people getting divorced or separated as a result, though. However, I've even heard quite a few married men casually talking about their cheating with other women, or their relationships with what I guess are basically call girls. Again, from my experience, Japanese men seem to like going out to "snacks" where they get to drink with `sexy` women, often times scantily clad. I suspect most of the time it is just companionship, but in America a lot of what goes on at those places would be considered cheating, I'd think. When you have these girls' phone numbers in your cell phone and you get mail and calls from them regularly, there is a relationship there, and sexual or not I'd count it as like light-cheating. There is certainly a lot of "full flavored" cheating going on too, though... although I suspect most of it is "light".

Most of this is about older people, in their 30's and beyond. Most of the extreme cases I've heard of are in or above their 40's though. Again, it's all just what I've heard about and a little of what I've seen.

Last edited by steven : 06-17-2010 at 12:52 AM.
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