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New Bra 'Supports' Women Looking to Get Married ( Japan )
Reuters ^
| May 13, 2009
Posted on 05/13/2009 2:31:02 PM PDT by george76
Japan's marriage rate is falling and the average age at which women get married is over 28 years, relatively late for a country in which single females were once considered over the hill at 25.
Triumph's latest novelty bra features an electronic nuptial timepiece, putting women seeking spouses literally on the clock.
"Japanese women are becoming more aggressive than men, working actively to make marriage happen, whereas in the past it was men who led women toward marriage," she said.
"The roles have switched completely."
Government statistics show nearly 57 percent of women under the age of 34 are unmarried, while some 3,800 firms in Japan offer match-making services.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Japan
KEYWORDS: japan; japanese; japanesewomen; marriage; marriagerate; women
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:31:03 PM PDT
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george76
To: george76
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:32:53 PM PDT
by
microgood
To: george76
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:34:46 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 114 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: george76
99% of Japanese women = not guilty.
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:36:04 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
("Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect" - Thoreau)
To: null and void
LOL!!! It took a few moments to realize the essense of that photo.
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:39:58 PM PDT
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: null and void
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:42:13 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
To: numberonepal
Ping to a thread with potential, I’m hoping.
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:43:25 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Satisfaction was my sin)
To: Sir Gawain
99% of Japanese women = not guilty. Yoko Ono = 1%
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:46:48 PM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Who is John Galt?)
To: null and void
She should turn that around, and she’d have a handy pocket in the middle.
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:46:54 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: george76
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:48:57 PM PDT
by
Always Right
(Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
To: Ramius
Maybe...
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:49:25 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 114 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: george76
How about using a bar code reader and a Breast buy Date label.
fine, too immodest , make it an RFID tag to keep it from being visible. ;-)
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:52:16 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: Ramius
Maybe she has one already...
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:52:24 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 114 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: NormsRevenge
Don’t squeeze the Charmin’?
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posted on
05/13/2009 2:53:19 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 114 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: Always Right
I am so thankful to have the opportunity to live in Japan.
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posted on
05/13/2009 3:03:34 PM PDT
by
WesternPacific
(I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
To: george76
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posted on
05/13/2009 3:10:23 PM PDT
by
libertarian27
(Ingsoc: Life, Liberty and the Department of Happiness)
To: george76
Japanese women to me, have always seemed very attractive! Maybe I should go to Japan for a wife..(probably less feminsts too)!
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posted on
05/13/2009 3:13:49 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
(DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
To: JSDude1
Shhh!!!!
That’s a secret expats in Japan do NOT want the rest of the world to know.
We like the odds the way they are now.
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posted on
05/13/2009 3:24:10 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Moderate Taliban? Oxymoron. Obama voters? Plain morons.)
To: null and void
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posted on
05/13/2009 4:46:48 PM PDT
by
DeLaine
(Navy blue)
To: JSDude1
“Japanese women to me, have always seemed very attractive! Maybe I should go to Japan for a wife..(probably less feminsts too)!”
Actually that would be a no-brainer. American guys that marry “liberated” American babes are simply enablers, making life miserable for most husbands (including themselves).
The odds of a marriage failing drop from around 50% with an American wife, to something like 10% with a non-American wife (although it depends on the nationality). Easy call, if you want my opinion.
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posted on
05/13/2009 5:24:42 PM PDT
by
BobL
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