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According to the 2010 census, 58.9% of Japan's adult population is married, 13.9% of women and 3.1% of men are widowed, and 5.9% of women and 3.8% of men are divorced. [31] The annual number of marriages has dropped since the early 1970s, while divorces have shown a general upward trend.
As in Africa, polygamy continues to be practiced in parts of Asia, regardless of laws. Nepal; China: Polygamy is illegal under the Civil code passed in 2020, which replaced a similar 1950 and 1980 prohibition. [104] Hong Kong: Polygamy ended with the passing of the Marriage Act of 1971 [105] when the country was a crown colony under the former ...
Social polygamy occurs when an individual has multiple partners that they live with, have sex with, and cooperate with in acquiring basic resources (such as shelter, food and money). Sexual polygamy refers to individuals who have more than one sexual partner or who have sex partners outside of a primary relationship.
Miai (見合い, "matchmaking", literally "look meet"), or omiai (お見合い) as it is properly known in Japan with the honorific prefix o-, is a Japanese traditional custom which relates closely to Western matchmaking, in which a woman and a man are introduced to each other to consider the possibility of marriage.
Japan Old Man Waterfall Futurama: 1999–2013 Old Man Waterfall, who is Zoidberg's defense attorney until killed by a giant crab warship, has seven wives and one husband as shown in the episode "A Taste of Freedom", arguing this before the Supreme Court, which holds polygamy as legal. [3] United States La'gaan: Young Justice: 2010–2013, 2018 ...
An international marriage in Japan is a marriage between a Japanese and a non-Japanese person, in accordance with the formalities provided by the law of Japan or of a foreign land. Procedures and rules mentioned in this article are mainly those of Japan, but in some cases other requirements are imposed by the homeland of the non-Japanese spouse ...
When the church missionaries taught about church's doctrine to the Japanese, it was often necessary to counter the assumptions the Japanese people had about the church and polygamy. The Japanese translation of the book A Brief History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints included an extra chapter on polygamy in order to provide ...
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