Okay, I found a small article about marriage in Japan and it's ties to anime (it's very short and in my opinion more could have been said on the subject). It talks a lot about Bubblegum Crisis (an anime), so you may or may not be able to follow it (sorry!). But the second link is a Japanese wedding walk through (the more westernized version, the pic above is of a classical Shinto wedding, which you don't see as much of anymore).
http://www.umich.edu/~anime/history_marriage.html
The link to the wedding walk through
(I recommend this one if you only want to read one of the articles)
http://www.peterpayne.net/Merchant3/japaneseweddings.html
Well, my response to this is that Bubblegum Crisis (the OVA and 2040) weren't that good, but that's irrelevant. In response to the marriage part, none of it came as any great surprise to me. Women here are still "supposed" to be married before they get into their mid-thirties, but 22 is on the young side. The very young side since nearly all Japanese students are expected to be college educated (despite the intense difficulty of college acceptance compared the to US). I was surprised that women are supposed to quit their job when they get married since Japan has been stressing productivity for the past few decades and I know most women there have jobs outside the home because of economic stresses. So on that note it's very silly and probably rooted in some old tradition of some kind. The "Christmas Cake" comment was funny in a dark way. Okay, more or less insulting, but you laughed out of discomfort too I bet. I don't know... the whole wedding ceremony in "modern" Japan seems kind of awkward just because it's so similar to an American wedding. The bride and groom stand around and shake hands and say thank you a whole lot, there are lots of speeches and there are expensive wedding planners and caterers bossing you around and coordinating everything. Just a lot of hoopla to please the relatives, it's the same all over I guess.
http://www.umich.edu/~anime/history_marriage.html
The link to the wedding walk through
(I recommend this one if you only want to read one of the articles)
http://www.peterpayne.net/Merchant3/japaneseweddings.html
Well, my response to this is that Bubblegum Crisis (the OVA and 2040) weren't that good, but that's irrelevant. In response to the marriage part, none of it came as any great surprise to me. Women here are still "supposed" to be married before they get into their mid-thirties, but 22 is on the young side. The very young side since nearly all Japanese students are expected to be college educated (despite the intense difficulty of college acceptance compared the to US). I was surprised that women are supposed to quit their job when they get married since Japan has been stressing productivity for the past few decades and I know most women there have jobs outside the home because of economic stresses. So on that note it's very silly and probably rooted in some old tradition of some kind. The "Christmas Cake" comment was funny in a dark way. Okay, more or less insulting, but you laughed out of discomfort too I bet. I don't know... the whole wedding ceremony in "modern" Japan seems kind of awkward just because it's so similar to an American wedding. The bride and groom stand around and shake hands and say thank you a whole lot, there are lots of speeches and there are expensive wedding planners and caterers bossing you around and coordinating everything. Just a lot of hoopla to please the relatives, it's the same all over I guess.
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