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Originally Posted by Nyororin
That is if their children go around declaring that they aren't full Japanese. Which from what I have seen simply does not happen. I know several East Asian-Japanese couples, some with adult children, and I assure you - their children are considered Japanese. In fact, they barely seem to acknowledge any non-Japanese heritage at all in life.
Most international marriages between Japanese and other Asians stay in Japan. Japan tends to have the higher standard of living, and Asian wife-Japanese husband is the most common combination. (The husband's home country tends to have more weight than the wife's).
Along the same lines, most marriages between actual westerners are western husband-Japanese wife, so they leave Japan far more often than stay.
Either way though - the figures you quoted are for ALL international marriages in Japan. NOT for only non-Asian international marriages. I recall reading something like a 3000-4000 marriage range for westerner-Japanese marriages, with 75% moving outside of Japan within the first few years. A marriage registered in Japan doesn't mean a couple lives in Japan after the marriage.
You can go on and on about how I am wrong and a dreamy future of mixed Japanese-caucasian children, but the figures do not support it at all.
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read this...mixed race..as in non-asian..as in westerner
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TOKYO —
Japan has long been regarded as a homogenous culture: to look Japanese and to speak the language was to be Japanese. However, with one in 30 babies here now being born to mixed-race couples, these concepts are starting to change. It’s an issue that’s particularly pertinent for the children of such couples, who have been dealing with questions of national identity for their whole lives, and now a group of young “hafu” are exploring what their experiences mean for the future of Japan.
The Hafu Project: Exploring the question of what it means to be Japanese ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
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