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What is the average age of marriage of the Japanese?

Accordins to the 2002 Vital Statistics by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the averagee age of marriage for men is 30.8 and 28.6 for women.
These figures are the average for all marriages: for people who marry for the first time, the average is 29.1 years for men, and 27.4 for women.
Until the early 1970s, the average ace ofg marriage for women was less than 25, but it is getting higher for both men andwomen, and people are getting married at a wider range of ages.