A Japanese House Party Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Japanese Family Marriage here differs from that of Western nations. Here it is simply a contract in which a man goes to the bride's house and takes her name almost as easily as the bride goes to his house to take his name. But it isan affair not of two individuals so much as of two families, and it is surrounded by customs that have even more strength than the new laws. The consent of parents is essential, but the code has wisely put a limit to parental authority by allowing the man of thirty and the woman of twenty-five to marry regardless of the parents' consent. Hence the vast majority of marriages is that of minors and is under parental control Marri age takes efiect upon its notification to the registrar by the parties con cerned and two witnesses The wording of this law suggests that there are marriages that don't take efect. This is just the difference bet ween a Japanese marriage and one in the West. Here the ceremonial marriage takes place with no reference whatever to its legality. The families concerned celebrate the occasion Open ly and the young couple live together as man and wife until it is convenientto have it 'f take effect and then the public office is notified that such and such persons are husband and wife, which notification constitutes the legal marriage. We foreigners are always deceiving ourselves by think ing that if the ceremony is open and society recognizes the pair as married, it must be legal. There are large numbers in every considerable town who pass as husband and wife yet have no legal status whatever as such. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.