Japanese Women Turn to Uk for Love

Britain's battalion of bachelors are in such demand overseas that a dating agency has opened its doors in the UK to help professional Japanese women find true love.
Women may think men are football obsessed and emotionally bereft, but Britain's battalion of bachelors are in such demand overseas that a dating agency has opened its doors in the UK to help professional Japanese women find true love. According to Destina Japan, professional women in Japan are increasingly looking overseas for romance because they feel Japanese men do not understand their need to work.

The agency, which opened its office two weeks ago, says well-educated Japanese women, typically in their 30s, with well-paid jobs as doctors, lawyers and entrepreneurs, are willing to spend thousands of pounds travelling to meet men in the UK.

One reason for this global quest for love is that 35% of Japanese women in their 30s are single. The agency hopes to match them with some of the 4.5 million single men in England and Wales aged 20 to 40.

Hiroko Ozawa, founder of Destina Japan, said: "Japanese women like the fact that British men have a modern attitude to family life as well as a respect for the traditional aspects of the Japanese culture."


© Guardian News & Media 2008
Published: 11/14/2004
 
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