The "three noes" of young Japanese people - no love, no marriage, and no fertility have made love hotels close down one after another, and also made the bachelor sketch pre-made food business of 24-hour convenience stores booming.
It is said that there are many people who walk together because of the recent idea that marriage agencies in Tokyo have organized a blind date between men and women with the same interests, so that "the same interests" become "similar interests". As a result, a new term was born in Japanese society, called "fun marriage".
The biggest reason why "fun marriage" can be successful is that both men and women go beyond the conditions of tickets, houses, and cars, and only marry for the sake of two people being happy and interesting together.
Perhaps, this is already a marriage that has broken away from the world, and some people call it "spiritual love in the AI era".
In 2023, the average annual income of Japanese workers is 4.48 million yen, which is used in Japan and has no sense of profit or loss, but if it is converted into RMB, it is only 210,000 yuan. Because of the depreciation of the yen, two years ago, it was 240,000 yuan.
IBJ, a well-known marriage agency in Japan, published a "2023 edition of the white paper on marriage", announcing a set of interesting figures, saying that in today's Japanese society, there is a proportion between annual income and the age of marriage, for example, people with an annual income of about 3 million yen, the age difference between men and women when they get married is about 1.7 years. If the annual income is about 21 million yen (about 1 million yuan), then the average age difference between the two sides is 8.3 years.
This means that rich old men are becoming more and more advantageous and attractive.
However, the "White Paper on Marriage" said that this phenomenon is only for some women. Most ordinary women do not regard the other party's income as the first condition for marriage.
Let's take a look at the following questionnaire to see the new conditions for Japanese people to get married:
First, it requires the other party to be considerate and gentle.
second, it is to ask the other party to be pure and unpretentious;
Third, it requires that character and values are compatible;
Fourth, it is a requirement to be happy together;
Fifth, consider financial capacity.
In other words, the conditions of tickets, houses, and cars have been reduced to the fifth place, and it is no longer important to have more money or less money, the important thing is that the two can feel love and happiness together, and they can drink soup.
Japanese society calls these new conditions for marriage "natural marriage", because this is what is in line with human nature, and love and happiness are the main conditions for marriage, rather than income and wealth as the first elements of love and marriage.
Over the past half century, marriage in Japanese society has gone through three periods.
First of all, in the Showa era, especially from the 60s to the 80s of the last century, Japan's economy entered a period of rapid development.
However, since 1990, with the collapse of the bubble economy, Japan has also entered the "Heisei era", and the conditions for women to find a partner have become "four lows", namely:
1. Low profile (will not point fingers at his wife and give commands)
2. Low dependence (you can't rely on your wife for all housework)
3. Low energy consumption (don't spend money indiscriminately)
4. Low risk (will not be fired)
In 2019, Japan's Emperor Heisei ceded the throne to the crown prince, and Emperor Naruhito ascended the throne, and Japan entered the "Reiwa era".
So, what were the demands of Japanese women in the Reiwa era after marriage? It's "Sanping":
1. Equal sharing of household chores;
2. Equally undertake childcare;
3. Equal work (women do not be housewives, do dual-income families)
Times are changing! In contrast, what era of marriage have you entered now?