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He comes home late, drunk after obligatory partying with the boss, and goes to bed. Her days are occupied with the home, the children, with hobbies he’s scarcely aware of.
Years pass. After the kids have gone and retirement nears, husband and wife see no shared dreams.
Japan’s lower incidence of divorce than that of Western nations has long been seen by the Japanese as an example of their country’s social stability and harmony.
But a sharp increase in divorce among older Japanese is shaking that belief. And the divorce rate is rising faster for older couples than for any other group.
Retirement forces many of Japan’s elderly couples into the unknown territory of filling the hours of a day in one another’s company. Nobuo Kurokawa, a doctor who specializes in marriage related stress, has coined a term for it: Husband-at-home- stress syndrome.
"The wives start developing nervous disorders and exhibiting all sorts of psychosomatic physical symptoms, "he said. "Many even think of suicide."
Centuries-old rules about the roles of men and women persisted for the sake of national reconstruction after World War I1. Then prosperity arrived, changing social values.
The tradition of the eldest son caring for parents in old age is no longer acceptable to Japan’s younger generations. Left to themselves, many elderly couples become lonelier together than they ever were when they spent the greater part of the day apart.
The dilemma is highlighted by the response Hiromi Ikeuchi, a marriage counselor, gets when she asks a woman what kind of person her husband is.
"Their immediate reaction is to give his job title or his height. But when I ask what his interests are or what worries him, they draw a complete blank," Ikeuchi said.
Most of the divorces among elderly couples are initiated by women, but men are increasingly finding they want to divorce after decades of married life.
The relatively high proportion of divorces among the elderly in Japan is also related to one of Japan’s most cherished values: enduring hardship. Many couples just put up with each other until their kids grow up.
By the time they have fulfilled their obligations and feel free to divorce, many seniors simply don’t have the energy to go through with it, he said.

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