Changing Divorce in Japan

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A century of historical perspective on divorce in Japan confirms that it occurred at an extraordinarily high rate before the turn of the century, and then declined until 1964. But with the progress of industrialization to even more ad vanced levels during the postwar era, divorce rates in Japan have gradually risen again, although not to the same high degree as in the West. For the first time, there seems to be a positive correlation between the level of industrialization and urbanization in Japan and the increasing divorce rate in the nuclear family. Recent statistics on divorce in Japan show that more and more women initiate divorce, that an increasing number of divorced women prefer to remain single, and that changing patterns of divorce have resulted in a lowering of the fertility rate, all of which may have significant implications for the demographic future of the Japanese population.

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