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| Osamu Suzuki--Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon/vg |
Japan is the country's second-highest in the world in terms of adoption, an average of more than 80,000 cases per year, however the target of adoption are not children, but adult males ages 20-30s.
"Historically, cases of this kind occur more frequently in families in Western Japan where the businessman's family tried to find a figure who is considered to be most suitable as a successor." said Mariko Fujiwara, a sociologist at the Hakuhodo Institute of Life.
"If there are no boys deemed fit to carry on the family line and, then figure the busnis of it can be found with married daughters with daughter-in-law a reliable business to take care of." said Fujiwara.
"Indeed a very pragmatic way in order to maintain the continuity of family business." he explained.
A model adoption like this even today, most of the japanese companies including a giant industrial known the world, regarded as family company. Including such as toyota and suzuki, car manufacturers a maker of the camera cañon and companies, a specialist sauce and soy sauce, kikkoman.
Suzuki, for example, several times under the control of an adopted child. Current supreme leader Suzuki, Osamu Suzuki, is the adopted son was the fourth in the history of the company.
"Family business carried on by son-in-law usually precisely much better growth than if run by the boys themselves," said Yasuaki Kinoshita, an analyst at fund management company Nissay Asset Management, a lot of investing in Japanese companies.
"When investing in a family firm on the stock exchange, the negative side there is the matter of the company's corporate governance and succession of managers."
In Matsui Securities, a old securities firm in Japan, current chairman Michio Matsui also adopted despite the consequences must abandon his own family name.
"I am the eldest son in our family (the original), so I was a little hesitant to be adopted children of other families," Matsui told. "But my biological parents said maybe it's already become my way of life."
The importance of continuing the lineage and maintain business continuity makes Chieko Date open matchmaking site where prospective husband should be willing to be adopted by his wife family in future.
"Its market share is clear because the birth rate in Japan is very low and a lot of parents who just had a daughter."
"While there are many men who are looking for opportunities to utilize their business skills without status as an employee of the company because in the current climate, looking for a promotion to be more difficult," said Date.
Tanaka Tsunomaru register at the site last November.
He admitted that he had managed to build a successful business, but then the business taken over by his wife who was also his business partner.
Now he hoped no one would adopt him so he could return falls to manage the family business.
"It does not matter because I rename it simply calls the name given by the government for the affairs of the family card," he explained.
"I believe my skills can be very valuable and there are opportunities separately inherit a family business and raise it, so it will benefit all parties."
Tanaka had met six women through dating event but have not found the figure sought.
"I am looking for information about the family owned company of these women," she admitted. "I did not marry his company but anyway I want to know, too."
Source: mediaindonesia.com
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