New trend in Asia: marrying imported’ wives

Cross-Country marriage is now a trend in Asia. Men from the continent’s wealthiest countries – such as Japan, Korea, and Singapore-prefer to find a life partner from poorer countries like Vietnam and the Philippines. Marriages of Japanese men to foreign women in 2006 rose 73 percent from 1995 — mainly from China and the Philippines.

Why is that?

“nowadays it is difficult to find a partner, in Japan young women are economically independent and prefer to remain single,” said the manager of a matchmaking agency in Osaka, Japan, Toshio Esaka, as quoted by the Arab Times, Monday, July 5, 2010. In South Korea, more than 35 percent of fishermen and farmers in the year to May 2009 married imported wives, mainly from China and Vietnam. The same is true in Singapore-the richest country in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Weddings there often involve a ‘matchmaker’. Men with low incomes there are many who are worried about being rejected by local women who have higher education.

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A matchmaking site in Singapore, even offers low-cost tours to Vietnam. There the men can find a mate who is equipped with the results of a medical examination and even a ‘certificate of virginity’. On the other hand, women in poor Asian countries consider men from rich countries, even with low incomes, to give hope for a more decent life. “Cambodian girls, for example, because of family poverty and the desire to improve economic life, they decide to marry foreign men,” said Ya Navuth, director of Cambodia’s anti-trafficking agency.

However, not everything ends happily. Indeed, some have had bad luck, some have been betrayed, or even treated as objects that can be sold. Domestic violence cases are experienced by many wives from Asia. They cannot get help because they have no family in a foreign land. Their poor English and Chinese skills make them unable to report to the police or others. The cases of violence eventually led various countries to make limits and rules for mixed marriages of their citizens. Indonesia, one of them, is considering the rules for implementing a security deposit of US$55 thousand that must be provided by foreigners who marry Indonesian women. If the spouses divorce, the wife will be entitled to take the money. The money will become ‘common property’ after the couple is together after 10 years. Cambodia has suspended marriages between its citizens and South Korean men for several weeks, before new anti-trafficking laws come into force. Regulations are also set by the ‘importing’ country.

Taiwan, for example, banned matchmaking ads last year in the wake of a domestic violence case in which a Taiwanese man tortured his Vietnamese wife. An interesting case has been made in China. At first this country was the ‘exporter’ of the bride. This position changed as a result of the one-family-one-child policy. In 2020, it is estimated that Chinese men will have difficulty finding a wife in their own country. (hs)

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