Do japanese people marry/date other Asians?
 

So I have this idea that japanese people only marry inside their race and rarely marry someone from another race such as American, French, Chinese, etc. Now I'd like to know if this is true or not? And if you do date someone from another country, how does the family view it?

This is definitely not true. It is not common, but Japanese do marry other race. More so Caucasian than other Asians, but interracial marriage definitely exist. Some families are more open than others, it will difficult to generalize on this topic.

Huh? You sure? Last stats I looked at seemed to show the opposite. Most cross-nationality marriages were with S.E Asians.

A bit like Chinese people I guess, they don't marry another race all that often, and mostly they prefer Asians such as phillipinos/thai rather than occidentals. Though a Chinese/Japanese couple is even more rare than Japanese/Other Asians/Occidental races.

Yes, that is right. Marriages with non-Asians are easier to notice on the street, but are the minority.

According to the statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, there were 36,039 international marriages between Japanese and non-Japanese in 2003. This is about 5 percent of the 740,191 couples who married in Japan, which means an an average of one out of 20 marriages were mixed. It was one out of 22 in 2000. International couples in Japan have thus increased.

Among international couples, foreign husbands and Japanese wives make up about 20 percent. Looking at the statistics by nationality. Koreans were involved in 2,235 marriages, followed by Americans in 1,529 marriages, Chinese in 890, British in 334 and Brazilians in 265 marriages respectively. Foreign wives and Japanese husbands make up about 80 percent, led by Chinese in 10,242 marriages followed by Filipino in 7,794 marriages, Koreans in 5,318, Thai in 1,445 and Brazilians in 296.

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o.O, so there are chinese/japanese couples? I thought they rarely existed...

There are, I have at least 3 friends who have Japanese wife.... we are all Chinese...

So, how do their families view their marriages? I know that some Chinese people such as my parents, are very biased towards Japanese culture... and even a little racist?

Hell yeeeeaaaaah!! I would date wit any chicks as long as they're my type of gurlz. Race or cultural background dun matter. Will ya introduce some cute girls to me? LOL

Mmm... you're the type of guy that we girls should be wary of on the internet... XD

Ouch, that stings .

I agree! I'm the quiet one.

I don't think I've ever seen a Japanese with a different Asian.

Remember there are a lot of Koreans and Chinese who have lived here for generations but are stilll not considered Japanese. They were born here, they speak, read and write as fluently as any Japanese person and unless you're good at spotting the slight differences in features you would never know they weren't Japanese. Many probably have even taken Japanese names but are still considered for statistics purposes foreigners.

ooouch!:eek: well,,,,,maybe you need to test me if i can be trusted by dating wit me? :D

Hummm... pretty sure you're married and have two kids just pretending to be single on the internet (joke there)

maybe cuz they don't stand out so much...u probably seen a japanese with another asian...but u probably thought it was just another japanese couple

and I think its only westerners who make a big deal of dating/ marrying a japanese...for Asians its meh....so what

i wanna make out with a japanese chick 1 day :mtongue:

lol... you are funny xD This remind me of the boys in my country^^ They're all the same, but it gives many exceptions, too.

I know that it lives many germans in japan they are married with japanese. =)

Yea i have seen a lots mixed nowadays. It's already known for chinees/jap,korea/jap,jap/filip,jap/thai,jap/white,jap/black,jap/latin.

I barely see indonesian with japanese...