A Comparative Study of Marriage difficulty in Japan and Ireland.

我们对日本和爱尔兰的婚姻困难进行了比较研究。我们发现了以下内容。爱尔兰当地妇女的地位很低，尤其是在爱尔兰西部。然而，在农业在很大程度上依赖于妇女的背部，她们在日常工作中扮演着重要的角色，在家庭管理中拥有强大的权力。农业的现代化和机械化倾向于使男性使用机器，并限制了女性在家庭事务中的地位。此外，宗教背景是影响男女控制-服从关系的最重要因素之一。这导致了从农村到城市的高比率社会流动性。另一方则利用传统的社会网络（教堂）和文化资源（节日）作为新一代与老一辈之间的交流网络。这意味着爱尔兰农村社会对新形势的灵活性和开放性。所以在这个社会里，“单身生活”从来不是指“还没有结婚的人”，而是指“只有一种生活方式”。因此，“农村婚姻难”的含义因社会文化条件的不同而不同。几十年前，媒人在爱尔兰农村地区的婚姻中扮演着重要的角色。如今，每年的“偶遇会”取代了媒人的婚姻中介，被称为“相亲节”。超过5万人来自爱尔兰的各个国家。这个节日激活了观光产业，特别是通过经营民宿增加了农家的收入。现在，这个位于爱尔兰西部的农村每年的大部分收入都要依靠“相亲节”。节日为居民提供了相互交流的机会，并提供了保持社区联系的可能性。

We research a comparative study of marriage difficulty in Japan and Ireland. we found the following. The status of women in local Ireland is low, especially in western Ireland. However, in the era the agriculture depended the work on women's' back in large part, they play big role in their everyday work, and had strong power in family management. The modernization and the mechanization of agriculture tend to made men use the machines, and restricted women in household affairs. In addition, religious background was one of the most important factors influencing the control-obedience relationships between men and women. This couses high rate social mobility from rural area to urban area. The other side people used traditional social network(church) and cultural resources(festival) as a way of making new communication network between young generation and old one. This means frexibility and openness of Iresh rural society for new situation. So in this society 'living single' never means 'yet marriaged person', but it means 'just one style of living'. Thus, the meaning of 'marriage difficulty in rural area' is varied according to socio-cultural conditions.A few decades ago, the match makers played important role to make marriage in rural area of Ireland. Today, instead of match maker's mediation of marriage, "Encounter Party", so called match making festival every year. More than 50 thousand people come from all over the countries in Ireland. The festival activates the sightseeing industries, and especially increases the income of the farmhouses through their managing B & B (Guest- house). Now the farming village in the west Ireland depend the large part of income of the year on the "Match Making Festival". The festival offers the inhabitant the chance to communicate each other, and give the possibility to maintain the ties of the community.