Reason of Divorce in Japan, 2012

Japanese court received 67,892 claims for divorces in 2012. 49,156 were claimed by wives, and 18,736 were claimed by husbands. The following statistics show the portion of claims for divorces by motive.

Cases filed by wives

Reason	Reason	%
性格があわない	Personality clash	45.6
暴力をふるう	Violence	27.2
生活費を渡さない	Refusal to provide money for living expense	25.3
精神的虐待	Mental abuse	23.2
異性関係	Unchastity	21.9
浪費	Wasteful habits	13.3
家庭を捨てて省みない	Abandonment of the family	10.5
性的不満（性的不調和）	Unsatisfactory sexual relationship	8.2
家族・親族と折り合いが悪い	Inability to get along well with the family and relatives	8.0
酒を飲みすぎる	Excessive drinking	7.7
異常性格	Abnormal character	5.8
病気	Illness	2.7
同居に応じない	Unwillingness of cohabitation	2.5

Cases filed by husbands

Reason	Reason	%
性格があわない	Personality clash	63
異性関係	Unchastity	16
精神的虐待	Mental abuse	15
家族・親族と折り合いが悪い	Inability to get along well with the family and relatives	15
性的不満（性的不調和）	Unsatisfactory sexual relationship	12
浪費	Wasteful habits	12
同居に応じない	Unwillingness of cohabitation	10
異常性格	Abnormal character	9
暴力をふるう	Violence	8
家庭を捨てて省みない	Abandonment of the family	6
病気	Illness	4
生活費を渡さない	Refusal to provide money for living expense	3
酒を飲みすぎる	Excessive drinking	3

Note: Motives of claims for divorces filed by petitioners. Up to 3 motives are chosen and added up for each case. The total of the percent distribution of each motive exceeds 100, as each percent distribution shows the proportion to the total number of motives.

Source: “ The Annual Report of Judicial Statistics “ by General Secretariat, Supreme Court

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