Moeka Iida
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279 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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And it also puts parent child contact on a firmer legal footing.
Is the divorce rate high in Japan?
So I think there's this perception that East Asia has very strong traditional values and that divorce is uncommon.
But as you've discussed on this show recently, divorce rates are going up in China.
And in Japan, around a quarter of marriages end in divorce.
So divorce is actually a normal part of family life.
And actually, legally speaking, Japan might be among the world's easiest places to get a divorce instead of seeking a
Court order as you have to do in Britain or America.
If you want to get a divorce in Japan, you only have to sign a document and submit it to the local board office.
Around nine and ten divorces are settled this way.
And that might sound smooth and amicable if you compare it against the idea of long and bitter court battles.
But actually, that also creates a lot of challenges.
When two people are getting divorced, usually tempers run hot.
So key decisions over visitation or child support are made without a neutral third party to cool things down.
Why is that?
It sort of fits a broader pattern in Japan.
There's a lot of laws and rules in the country that have gone untouched for a very long time.
Legal change or policy shifts often lag behind what's happening on the ground.
But I also do think that despite divorce being a normal part of family life, divorce being quite common, there wasn't much of an open conversation around what family should look like after divorce.
And there's interesting research by an anthropologist called Alison Alexi, who describes Japan's approach to divorce as following a clean break model.
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