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Meanwhile a quiet revolution is taking place among younger women. NAOKO ANZAI, a active career women who had dated Japanese men in the past , says she can't imagine typing the knot with one because their way of life is boring and uncreative. I didn't want to be fitted into a mold. says the 35-year-old ANZAI. who recently married a European. More women, in fact , are choosing to get withed with a foreigner. The number of Japaneses females marring a none -Japanese steadily rose to 7477 in 1998 from 5600 in 1990 small number but indicative of the greater options women have . And some women are just opting to wait. Until quite recently , unmarried women in their late 20s were dismissed as "unsold Christmas cake" whose market value plummets after the holidays. But now marry more hold off getting married until well int their 30s. Their reason? salary men are no longer the prize they once were, now that lifetime employment, is a thing of the past. Besides, many more women are capable of earning a living . In the past , women dedicated themselves to the family, while men concentrated on their work and society thrived says ANZAI. This structure is now beginning to crumble "Another sign of change in Japan
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