Editing Mail-order bride (section)

===Japan===
{{Main|Asian migrant brides in Japan}}
During the 1980s and 1990s, local authorities started government-led initiatives encouraging marriage between women from other Asian countries and Japanese farmers due to the lack of Japanese women who wanted to live in the countryside.<ref name="Japansource">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JImIBAAAQBAJ |title=Transformation of the Intimate and the Public in Asian Modernity |date= 12 August 2014|publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789004264359 }}</ref> These Asian brides came from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China and South Korea.<ref name="Japansource"/> The phenomenon of marrying women from other Asian countries later spread to urban parts of Japan as well.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/12/world/yodo-journal-where-want-ads-are-bait-and-weddings-forced.html|title=Yodo Journal; Where Want Ads Are Bait and Weddings Forced|date=14 April 1991|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>