Dekichatta kekkon

In Japan, the slang term dekichatta kekkon (出来ちゃった結婚), or dekikon (デキコン) for short, emerged in the late 1990s. The term can literally be translated as "oops-we-did-it-marriage," implying an unintended pregnancy (and is therefore analogous to the English phrase "shotgun wedding"). A quarter of all Japanese brides are pregnant at the time of their wedding, according to the Health Labor and Welfare Ministry,[1] and pregnancy is one of the most common motivations for marriage.[2] The prevalence and celebrity profile of dekichatta-kon has inspired Japan's wedding industry to introduce an even more benign phrase, sazukari-kon (授かり婚; blessed wedding).[3]

Notable individuals

Notable celebrities with these marriages include Namie Amuro, Yōko Oginome, Hitomi Furuya, Ami Suzuki, Kaori Iida, Nozomi Tsuji, Anna Tsuchiya, Meisa Kuroki, Leah Dizon, Melody Miyuki Ishikawa, Riisa Naka and Rie Miyazawa.[4][5]

TV personality and news presenter Christel Takigawa announced her plan to marry Japanese politician Shinjiro Koizumi on August 7, 2019.[6] Five months later, their first child was born in January 2020, and Koizumi subsequently took paternity leave.[7] As the couple announced the pregnancy during the marriage announcement, they were accused of having a shotgun wedding.[8][9] Some commentators defended the couple, pointing to pressures for Koizumi to marry and for Takigawa to have children, that may have prompted the announcement.[10] Because the child was born less than 200 days following the couple's wedding in August, and was thus conceived before the marriage, Koizumi is not listed as the father in the birth registry, as per Japanese Civil Code.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brasor, Philip (8 January 2012). "Oops! Pregnant celebs dancing down the aisle". Japan Times. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  2. ↑ National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, The Fourteenth Japanese National Fertility Survey in 2010 (October 2011). "Marriage Process and Fertility of Japanese Married Couples" (PDF). Retrieved 13 January 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Ryall, Julian (22 June 2009). "Japan embraces shotgun weddings". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Haruna Kashiwase, "Shotgun Weddings a Sign of the Times in Japan," Population Today, July 2002, prb.org Archived 25 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "Japan embraces shotgun weddings". The Daily Telegraph. 22 June 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
  6. ↑ "Former Japanese PM's son Shinjiro Koizumi to marry TV star Takigawa". South China Morning Post. 7 August 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
  7. ↑ Staff (15 January 2020). "Koizumi is first of Japan's top ministers to take paternity leave". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
  8. ↑ "小泉進次郎衆院議員と滝川クリステルが結婚 滝クリは妊娠、年明け出産予定/デイリースポーツ online". デイリースポーツ online (in Japanese). 29 July 2026. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
  9. ↑ 適菜 収 (August 2024). 自民党の大罪 [The Grave Sins of the Liberal Democratic Party] (in JP). Tokyo: 祥伝社. ISBN 978-4396117023.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  10. ↑ 福井しほ (13 August 2019). "進次郎＆滝クリの"パーフェクト婚"に欠かせなかった一つのこと". AERA DIGITAL（アエラデジタル） (in Japanese).
  11. ↑ "小泉進次郎は「父ではない」…できちゃった婚の「意外なリスク」". 現代ビジネス (in Japanese). 4 September 2019.


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