Abstract
The Japanese term kokusaikekkon (intermarriage) refers to a marriage between persons of different nationalities. Even in statistics compiled by government agencies, intermarriage includes marriages between a Japanese person and a non-Japanese person who was born and educated in Japan. In the American context, Merton (1941) defines intermarriage as marriage between persons deriving from those different in-groups and out-groups other than the family which are culturally conceived as relevant to the choice of a spouse. In other words, for Merton, intermarriage comprises a number of subcategories, including interracial marriage, interethnic marriage, interfaith marriage, and intercultural marriage.
The author would like to express her thanks to the Population Census Division, the Statistics Bureau of Japan, for allowing her access to the microdata of the 2010 Population Census.
This chapter is part of the results of research conducted as Platform Research (C), recipient of a Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research received from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: “Comprehensive study of family formation of intermarriage couples involving Japanese, with quantitative and qualitative analysis” (Theme number: 24530676) (representative researcher: Shuko Takeshita).
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Takeshita, S. (2016). Intermarriage and Japanese Identity. In: Healy, E., Arunachalam, D., Mizukami, T. (eds) Creating Social Cohesion in an Interdependent World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520227_10
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