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Apr 17 2008 8 Comments

Japanese marriage meltdown

Just like everywhere else in the world, weddings in Japan are both pleasurable and pricey, regardless of whether they are traditional Shinto ceremonies, or less formal, foreigner officiated affairs.

shinto wedding

In fact, the main difference from weddings in the West used to be the rather low divorce rate — but not anymore. Separations are now nowhere near as scarce, and, due to a recent change in the law regarding a partner’s pension payments, the numbers look set to soar.

japanese wedding

However, when a marriage goes into meltdown, it obviously makes no difference where the couple met, or made their home. And the way this man (or indeed woman) recklessly dumped the big day bouquet and album by the roadside,

japanese wedding

the partnership presumably hit rock bottom at a rapid, and utterly irreconcilable, rate.

Categorized: Culture, Photography

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  1. Paul says

    4/17/2008 at 10:47 pm

    How utterly depressing those pictures are. There’s probably a terrible tale of woe behind it all. You should write a book about it.

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  2. Lee says

    4/17/2008 at 10:59 pm

    There certainly must be Paul, but to write more I’d have to meet them, and hear more about what happened. But to be honest, I don’t think I’d want to. Just coming across the stuff they had thrown away was sad enough.

    I have more pictures of several other albums they threw away, including some of the reception, if you are interested…

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  3. Neil Duckett says

    4/18/2008 at 11:05 am

    It does make you wonder the complete story though …

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  4. Paul says

    4/19/2008 at 12:33 am

    Just make something up.

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  5. Kenji says

    4/19/2008 at 6:12 pm

    I loves he, but not to be. We marry in Kagoshima and live at Tachikawa. I meat nice guy now, so not want things. I shockd to see my phootos.

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  6. Paul says

    4/21/2008 at 9:03 pm

    Is the post above for real? I think we should be told.

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  7. Lee says

    4/21/2008 at 9:09 pm

    If it is Paul, the ‘wife’ has a bloke’s name.

    Perhaps that was at the root of the problem…

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  8. Paul says

    4/22/2008 at 8:11 pm

    Ha ha ha! Perhaps it came up on their wedding night.

    Boom boom!

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