Which Part of the reason Japanese Girls Like Big Single

Many Japanese women are choosing to remain unmarried adults with a variety of reasons, including because it does not find a suitable partner and do not wish to marry.


Lecturer of Foreign Languages ​​High School (STBA) Indonesian Institute of America (LIA) Risma Delvina Siahaan, in Medan on Friday, said, today's wedding for some Japanese women is just one of many life choices that can be done or abandoned altogether.


Speaking at a seminar Kejepangan "The Role and Status of Women Seen From Japan Social and Cultural Aspects" which is a series of Japanese cultural festival at the University of North Sumatra, Delviana say, the Nikkei Shimbun newspaper had done research in 1995 in women aged 30 years and over who worked in an office in Tokyo.


The result almost half of which is about 44.2 percent of respondents answered no matter if they do not get married if you do not find a suitable life partner, and about two percent answered no desire to marry.


According to him, there are many factors underlying the trend of Japanese women today do not want to get married. For example on young people, education and employment is considered to be a major impediment to marriage.


While among the middle and upper age may be due to factors in the financial independence, have been accustomed to live alone or have not found a suitable partner for marriage.


A Japanese writer, Sumiko Iwao in his book entitled "Japanese Women: Traditional Image and Changing Reality" describes some of the causes of the reduced number of couples who marry in Japan, namely in the economic progress so that the women are able to live financially independent, although not married.


Then many women are starting to have to understand that feminism is not bound by tradition to become a housewife and wedding procedures are cumbersome and costly.


"From some reason it appears that economic development has been becoming the main reason for Japanese women to delay marriage. This indirectly proves that progress in economics in Japan has a major role in changing the mindset of Japanese people toward marriage, especially for the modern Japanese woman , "he said.


According to him, for career-oriented women, marriage is considered a barrier to achieving their professional goals. Marriage for the modern Japanese woman has become the burden of having to sacrifice their personal desires for the benefit of each family.


"To be able to maintain their lifestyle, the modern Japanese women are willing to live with stay single and enjoy his freedom," he said.