70–80 % der „späten“ Scheidungen in Japan werden von Frauen initiiert

Good for them? I think it’s because many men get used to having someone at home doing chores, cleaning up after them etc. At some point women have enough and leave, meanwhile a guy would have preferred to have a comfy life continuing doing nothing. Of course not everyone, but somehow it doesn’t suprise me

I think a lot of them never really loved their spouse anyways. Arranged marriages were very common until things started to change in the 80s.

No shit, Sherlock! The man got a free mom out of the deal whilst the woman got shafted. No benefit at all to taking care of a man who doesn’t know how to cook or clean.

How many were the results of finding out the husband is frequenting soaplands and „snack“ bars after spending the day at pachinko? 😅

If some of you watch love village s3. Check at Baron behaviour. It explains well

That’s sounds about normal with the rest of the world. In other words water is wet.

modern world is terrible for marriage. no shit everyone from all around the world is having problem with marriage

So what you’re saying is, there are a lot of Japanese divorcees just hangin around the yakisoba shops waiting on a new beau to come in and sweep them off their feet? Hold on, gotta see if my passport is still valid. Nope. Damn it.

by that time, the husband either has no libido left, or is seeing a younger woman because he can’t stand his wife. Same how they abandon pets cuz they no longer tiny and cute. There is a pattern.

Like in everywhere else that’s why alimony is an organized theft against men

But also one thing Japan is getting right is avoiding the two income trap. Both parents getting jobs and moving their lifestyle up to a level that when one fails the whole system collapses.

In America women imitate divorce 69% of the time

Well it’s not really a surprise, globally women initiate most divorces. But in Japan with this specific kind of divorce, yeah it’s even more unsurprising. The standard for decades and still today is the husband works and the wife stays at home and deals with the family and household.

A salaryman basically lives at work and visits home to eat and sleep. With the husband gone for basically 12+ hours a day and barely any time off from work, add 30-40 years to this routine and it becomes two roommates who decided to cohabit together. The upside is although their husbands essentially became a stranger, at least they were bringing in an income to make up for it. But once they retire, the wife now has to deal with a man who for decades she barely spent extended periods of time with and now she has to be around someone who she basically learned to live without their existence apart from the income. Add in that factor and now he no longer brings home a salary, she now sees him as a useless stranger who adds nothing to her life in old age.

Like most countries globally, divorces work primarily in favour of women and in Japan, men are required to give up the home, a portion of their salary and as well as their retirement savings too. So all around, in this route, a woman can basically keep up the routine she’s become accustomed to but this time cut all ties with her husband and her former husband just lives the last 30 years of their life in some apartment living on meagre savings like he did as a salaryman but now fully lost in his life as he now has little to no friends, family or hobbies as work was his entire existence.

So depending on how you view it, as a woman she finally got rid of the deadweight in her life. As a man, you either think the husband deserves it, feel sorry for him because he’s dealing with this at an old age especially, or view it as a reason as to why marriage has no benefit to a man.