Truth About Marriage/J.J. Hairston's Blog

In America is it possible to have a university for singles learning how to be husbands and wives? Well in Japan it is possible to learn how to have great marriages by attending a marital institution school. The head line is, TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - In search of Mr. or Mrs. Right, dozens of Japanese are attending a newly launched school in Tokyo that aims to turn them into marriage material. Have Tokyo Japan embarked onto something hot and new that can revolutionized a whole country. Well one problem with Japan is that there are too many singles and not enough married people building families and having children. This was one of the concerns about the future of Japan. As a single person you have to know how to love a man, how to love a woman and how to win one another over into marriage.

The school, which is open to men and women, teaches students how to talk, walk and present themselves elegantly in a bid to capture the hearts and minds of prospective partners and their parents, who are often a major obstacle to successful unions. That is what I call a curriculum to your students how to walk, talk and how to be an overall lady or man.  When it comes to in-laws I think it is very important to learn how to get along and to accept one another.

The school is called the Infini School which opened last month, now has about 30 female students. An almost equal number of males have signed up, but those who actually turn up to class are much fewer than their female counterparts. My question is what if we in America adopted a similar type school for singles and to take a little farther, what about classes for married people learning how to better their marriages? There in Japan just to start out with about 60 students is not that bad it is hard to get that many people in Church for the first time.

Here is what I read from that article about this school on what is being taught in general; "Instructors provide critiques about students' dress, posture and even details such as how they cross their legs or get out of a car. Men and women are taught different skills, which range from how to set a table well to how to be more emotionally expressive. Students also simulates dates, during which their instructors grade their performance and point out what they did wrong."

The dress part is very important because some women can dress very provocative in a sexual content. That type of dress is not lady like. For the men I think once you get married you should not stop opening the car door for your woman whom is now your wife.

Here is a quote from a young lady attending the school Infini, "I'm looking for a man who makes more than 10 million yen (110,000 dollars) a year, doesn't ask me to live with his parents and takes good care of me," said Oda, a contract office worker. Is this a little too high of an expectation but a doable one?

Are you ready for the cost of this school, well here it is; "the school charges an annual fee of 200,000 yen ($2,217) for unlimited access to its classes." The question is how serious will America take a marital school to pay $2,217 a year and is America ready for taking marriage that serious?

I believe the Institution of marriage is that serious even if it takes a whole year to get it right in classes to learn the important parts of marriage as a whole. Especially when it comes to a holy matrimony, I believe learning What God said about marriage is even more important to the Institution of Marriage. Why, He invented it, ordained it, and created it!

At this point you might ask why we need a school of marriage when we have the Church. Well that is a good point, then why doesn’t the Church start it up. A school like this can start by the Church and maybe people who call themselves Christians will take marriage more seriously. The highest divorce rate starts with the Christians and it is time that shall I say we as Christians be the examples in our Nation and the world as having the greatest marriages on earth!