NO MARRIAGE BAR
A.I.F. MEN & JAP. BRIDES
MANY SHINTO CEREMONIES (10 a.m.) TOKYO, March 11. Australian soldiers in Japan may marry Japanese girls at the British Consul-General’s office in Yokohama and their brides, until the British Nationalisation Bill becomes law, will automatically become British citizens, it was learned authoritatively today. Although under the army regulations a soldier is obliged to get his commanding officer’s approval ,of marriage, failure to receive this in ho way upsets the legality of the marriage, provided the necessary proof of eligibility is produced. If soldiers genuinely wanted to marry Japanese there was nothing in the civil law to prevent them. Officials at the consulate said that one or two inquiries had been made by members of the occupation force but thus far no marriage ceremony had been performed.
8.C.0.F. officials said that Shinto marriage—the traditional Japanese ceremony—was a mock marriage. Unofficial 8.C.0.F. sources said that scores of such marriages had been celebrated. Usually the man was not anxious for such a wedding but acceded to the girl’s wishes.
The known number of children born to Allied servicemen by de facto Japanese wives in the Tokyo-Yokohama area was 2000.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22584, 12 March 1948, Page 5
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