Posted & Translated by Fuangping
Cited by infoseek news

Recently in Japan, “Konkatsu (seeking marriage activity)” prevails among those middle aged. While the Konkatsu itself still flourishs vigorously, what participants have in mind seems like changing gradually, especially among women.

Against what seems like traditional notion, the number of women who seek and choose guys earning less money than theirs as their life-partner has been increasing; what is called “Kakushita-Kon (marriage with lower-ranked guy)”

The main reasons are following:
“It makes me feel easy.”
“Compared to single life, it will be richer after all.”
“Holding the bigger power (economically) than man mekes me feel stress-free.”

The book “Kakushita-Kon no susume (the recommendation of marriage with lower-ranked guy)” exemplifies how good the Kakushita-Kon is, showing a lot of successful cases. Also how to troubleshoot the marriage, how to meet with such a guy and how to make the marriage happy are written in the book.



＜原文　日本語＞
「婚活」が盛んだが、パーティーなどのイベントに参加する男女の思いは、かつてと比べて少々違ってきているらしい。意外にも、女性の場合は「（男性のほうが収入が少ない）格下婚」の相手を求めているケースが増えており、その背景には「面倒くさくない」「独身時代より生活はラク」「自分が（経済的な）権力者であることによるストレス・フリー」などがあるようだ。

同書の中で、著者の水次さんは「格下婚」で幸せをつかんだ例を多数挙げるとともに、
「格下婚」のトラブルシューティングや「格下クン」との出会い方、「格下婚」を成功に導く
秘けつなども詳説している。