How frequent is the male equivalent of this type of bride who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage and that rural Japanese men have begun taking from he Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other Asian countries in the mid 1980s?
much less common
Title: Mail-order bride
Passage: A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage.  In nineteenth-century America, mail-order brides came from well-developed areas on the Eastern seaboard to marry men in Western frontier lands.  In the twentieth century, the trend was towards women living in developing countries seeking men in more developed nations.  In the twenty-first century, the trend is now based primarily on internet-based meeting places which do not per se qualify as mail-order bride services.  The majority of the women listed in the twentieth-century and twenty-first-century services are from Southeast Asia, countries of the former Eastern Bloc and (to a lesser extent) from Latin America.  Since the collapse of the Soviet Union large numbers of eastern European women have advertised themselves in such a way, primarily from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.  Men who list themselves in such publications are referred to as "mail-order husbands," although this is much less common.
Title: Japan foreign marriage
Passage: Japan foreign marriage is a phenomenon occurring in rural Japan.  Since the mid 1980s, rural Japanese men have begun taking foreign brides, mainly those from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other Asian countries, as a way of countering the reduced number of women who are of marriageable, childbearing age that are willing to marry rural Japanese men.  The phenomenon has created a new industry of foreign marriage brokering that uses both local governments and private organizations to facilitate the immigration of foreign brides.  This is largely a result of an aging population in Japan where approximately 20% of the population is over the age of 65, which is exceptionally high, a fertility rate of only 1.3, and increased opportunities for women and increased costs in child care.
Title: Asians in Germany
Passage: Asians in Germany or German Asians (German: Deutsch-Asiaten ) are German citizens of full or partial Asian descent.  The term "Asian German" is also applied to foreign residents of Asian origin living in the Federal Republic of Germany.  German Asians have been present in Germany in small numbers since the 19th century and originate primarily from countries like Vietnam, China, Thailand, India, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Japan or the Philippines.  Although Germany's official census data doesn't collect specific data on ethnicity or race, the number of people with an Asian "migrant background" is listed in statistical reports.  As of 2011, there were approximately 1,890,000 people in Germany who descended from inhabitants of Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Asia or South Asia.  These numbers do not include Western Asians such as Turks, Jews, Arabs or Iranians, however, they contain certain groups like Afghans or ethnic Russians from Central Asian countries the latter who are not specifically "Asian" by culture.
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