| Rural Japanese families are spending up to $25,000 each to import brides from China, South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines. In 1997, there were 274,000 residency visas for foreign spouses of Japanese citizens, an increase of 30 percent in five years. The declining birth rate and the emigration of young women from rural areas is being blamed for the shortage of wives for rural Japanese men. Japanese custom requires that the family's oldest son inherit the land and care for elderly parents. So... | She found him on the Internet, on a dating site called American Singles. He called himself COWBOYBOOTS38. When they met for drinks at Alli Gators one night in August, he talked sweet and held her hand.
But by the end of the night, a 32-year-old Hudson woman's date with a cyber-cowboy had devolved into beating and rape.
Authorities say David William Prentice, 40, a Brooksville produce manager, struck the woman's face, choked her with a pillowcase, bit her chest, raped her and forced her to perf... | Javier is a 20-something-year-old bachelor, an expert in the nature of the modern man. Week by week, he will clue you in on what men really want - and what really goes on in those heads of theirs.
SO my friend, let's call him Mac, has a real bad problem. He's been telling me every time we've spoken for the past few weeks that he's disillusioned with women. No he isn't thinking about making a sexual 180 or anything like that, but he's lost faith in having successful relationships with women.
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