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Originally Posted by masaegu
Why so many people outside of Japan keep blindly believing this myth is a big myth to me. The truth is "the other way around" wins by a landslide. In fact, there is even no comparison.
If you read Japanese:
"同じく2009年人口動態統計年報によれば、国際結婚の相� ��の主な出身国籍は、配偶者女性（夫が日本人）では、� ��国（12,733）、フィリピン（5,755）、韓国・北朝鮮（4,113 ）、タイ（1,225）、ブラジル（273）、アメリカ（179）、� ��ルー（93）、イギリス（56）、その他の国（2,320）であ� ��、配偶者男性（妻が日本人）では、韓国・北朝鮮（1,87 9）、アメリカ（1,453）、中国（986）、イギリス（367）、 ブラジル（290）、フィリピン（156）、ペルー（90）、タ� ��（58）、その他の国（2,367）である[6]。
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Quoted from Wiki.
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This is because for one, the figures are for those continuing to live in Japan, and secondly because I think it is pretty easy to see the relatively low number of marriages between Japanese men and women
not of Asian descent.
In international marriages where one side is from a "Western" country, it seems the overwhelming trend is to move to that country. This is doubly true when the "international" side is the husband - there is quite a flow of Japanese wives to other countries... Japanese husbands - not nearly as many.
I am a member of a few communities for 国際結婚 (not really an active participant... but that is beside the point) - It is very easy to see the difference between the numbers staying in Japan and leaving based upon where the non-Japanese partner is from, and which side is Japanese.
In the case of one side being from a "western" country, I would say about 80% of the Japanese husband couples stay in Japan... While about 30% of the Japanese wife couples do.
What I am trying to say is that those figures end up more truly reflecting about 90% of the marriages between Japanese men and foreign women, but only about 30% of those between Japanese women and foreign men. (Marriages registered outside Japan tend not to be included, but are recognized in the case of later residency in Japan. As they are not registered in Japan, they don`t appear in the figures.)
Even if the percentages weren`t incredibly skewed - there are still nearly 10 times the number of marriages between non-Asian men and Japanese women.
I know several women who eventually moved to other countries after getting married, and they tell stories of huge communities of Japanese wives - and the amazement when they encounter a Japanese husband as it`s just so strange and out of the ordinary.