One in five Japanese people who got married this year got married after meeting on a matching app.
'Matching App' is a service that connects new people online.
On the 18th, the Asahi Shimbun, citing a survey by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance, reported that more than one out of five Japanese married this year met their marriage partner through a matching app.
Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance conducted a survey of 1,620 married people in their 20s to 70s across Japan, and 22.6% of respondents cited matching apps as an opportunity to meet a couple for the first time.
'Workmates/seniors and juniors' and 'school classmates/seniors and juniors' accounted for 20.8% each.
The proportion of respondents who said that matching apps became an opportunity for marriage was low at 2.4% in 2010-2014 and 6.6% in 2015-2019, but it soared to 17.9% in 2020 when COVID-19 spread.
For the first time this year, it ranked first among responses.
In addition, 'Introduction of friends / acquaintances', which was 14.9% before the Corona 19 pandemic, decreased to 9.4%, and 'Party / Event (for wedding)' also decreased from 8.1% to 3.8%.
The Asahi Shimbun analyzed that the decrease in face-to-face encounters due to Corona 19 in these results increased matching app encounters and marriages.