One by one, Japenese couples are walking through the legal steps of finalizing their divorces: dividing property, determining child custody and arranging the college fund. But when it comes to settling the heartache over the end of a marriage, Japanese couples are finding that the legal system had no formal recovery process.
Thus the new divorce ceremony.
One in four marriages in Japan now ends in divorce, yet it's still considered a cultural taboo. These increasingly popular divorce ceremonies help some Japanese cope with the country's changing social norms, according to divorce ceremony planner Hiroki Terai.
