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In 2007 this figure rose again to twenty eight:
Average Age of First Marriage for Women in Japan
Year Age
1950 23.0
1975 24.7
1985 25.5
1995 26.3
2007 28.3
Table 1: Average Age of First Marriage for Women in Japan
Source: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. 153
According to Tamiko Yamakawa, “traditionally most women married at
least once. It was taken for granted that women married at a marriageable
age and raised children. But starting in the mid-eighties marriage became just
one of the alternatives for women”. 154
The average age for giving birth to a first child has also increased with
the most common age group rising for the first time to thirty-to-thirty-four
years, and the average age for first-time mothers to age twenty nine in 2007
(Table 2):
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