Divorce business booming
With married couples choosing to go their separate ways about every two minutes in Japan, divorce ceremonies celebrating the end of unhappy unions and demonstrating couples' determination to start over are gaining popularity in Tokyo.
About 15 people in their 20s and 30s attended one such ceremony earlier this year, some formally clothed and others bearing congratulatory money in envelopes with "goshugi" (end of marriage ceremony) written on them in large characters.
Held at a so-called divorce mansion converted from a garage in Tokyo's Asakusa area, the man and woman about to say "I don't" arrived in separate rickshaws.
A 28-year-old woman representing the couple's friends made a speech at the beginning of the ceremony.Best quality Swiss and Japanese replicafakewatches. "Honestly speaking,Huge selection of outdoor christmas decorations for your garde, I've had a difficult time knowing what to say (here at the ceremony),lacosteshoes womenhandbags compact fluorescent light." she said. "I'd still like to be friends with both of you even after the divorce."
The atmosphere solemn, the soon-to-be ex-couple held a hammer together as their wedding rings were placed in front of them by divorce ceremony pioneer Hiroki Terai.
"The couple's last cooperative act will now take place," said Terai, 30.
The next moment, the couple brought the hammer down and smashed the rings, signifying the end of their partnership. The ceremony concluded when the smashed rings were placed in a frog-shaped monument.
Frogs symbolize change in Japanese culture and the word "kaeru" can mean either "frog" or "change" in Japanese.
The woman who had made a speech said in a somewhat bewildered tone, "(The ceremony) was sad in a different way than a funeral."
The couple married in October 2003 and has a 6-year-old son.You had better not to show off your expensive cctv ccd camera watches in public places. However, different living hours became too much for the 34-year-old man, a company employee, and his 32-year-old wife, who worked at an izakaya pub. The wife found out her husband had an affair with another woman.
The couple said they talked about divorcing for nearly a year. After the ceremony, the husband said with a smile,You would like cctv cameras watches. "I felt a such a sense of relief smashing the rings."
With married couples choosing to go their separate ways about every two minutes in Japan, divorce ceremonies celebrating the end of unhappy unions and demonstrating couples' determination to start over are gaining popularity in Tokyo.
About 15 people in their 20s and 30s attended one such ceremony earlier this year, some formally clothed and others bearing congratulatory money in envelopes with "goshugi" (end of marriage ceremony) written on them in large characters.
Held at a so-called divorce mansion converted from a garage in Tokyo's Asakusa area, the man and woman about to say "I don't" arrived in separate rickshaws.
A 28-year-old woman representing the couple's friends made a speech at the beginning of the ceremony.Best quality Swiss and Japanese replicafakewatches. "Honestly speaking,Huge selection of outdoor christmas decorations for your garde, I've had a difficult time knowing what to say (here at the ceremony),lacosteshoes womenhandbags compact fluorescent light." she said. "I'd still like to be friends with both of you even after the divorce."
The atmosphere solemn, the soon-to-be ex-couple held a hammer together as their wedding rings were placed in front of them by divorce ceremony pioneer Hiroki Terai.
"The couple's last cooperative act will now take place," said Terai, 30.
The next moment, the couple brought the hammer down and smashed the rings, signifying the end of their partnership. The ceremony concluded when the smashed rings were placed in a frog-shaped monument.
Frogs symbolize change in Japanese culture and the word "kaeru" can mean either "frog" or "change" in Japanese.
The woman who had made a speech said in a somewhat bewildered tone, "(The ceremony) was sad in a different way than a funeral."
The couple married in October 2003 and has a 6-year-old son.You had better not to show off your expensive cctv ccd camera watches in public places. However, different living hours became too much for the 34-year-old man, a company employee, and his 32-year-old wife, who worked at an izakaya pub. The wife found out her husband had an affair with another woman.
The couple said they talked about divorcing for nearly a year. After the ceremony, the husband said with a smile,You would like cctv cameras watches. "I felt a such a sense of relief smashing the rings."
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