Love Your Wife Day helps men open up to romance ...

Japanese men, not unlike their Irish counterparts, can find romance hard, says Jonathan de Burca Butler . So they created Love Your Wife Day to help men express their love for thier other halves

Mon, 26 Jan, 2015 - 00:00

Jonathan de Burca Butler

In a park in Tokyo a man in his sixties takes to a small open stage. Behind him is a garland of pink tulips shaped like a heart.

Being January it is cold and there are few onlookers. “We have been married 40 years,” he tells those who will listen and, he hopes, his wife.

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Courts Features Place: Tokyo Place: Japan Place: Sumakoi Person: Jonathan de Burca Butler Person: Ruth Evans Person: Chie Kobayashi Person: Kobayashi Person: Kiyotaka Yamana Person: Yamana Person: Europeans Person: Mills Person: Boon Event: Love Your Wife Day Organisation: BBC World Service Organisation: NHK Organisation: The Devoted Husband Association Organisation: CNN

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