TOKYO —

About 62% of polled single Japanese working women aged 25 to 44 want to marry someone who likes what they like, according to a recent online survey by a French insurance company.
   
The poll, conducted in late February by AXA Life Insurance Co on 600 such women, a unit of the AXA financial group of France, also found that 27% of the women want their potential marriage partners to have the same spending habits.
   
It found that 26.3% of these women want to marry someone with stable status of employment like full-time, regular workers.
   
The poll found those three characteristics to be the most highly valued as features of potential spouses, the insurer said.
   
The three features contrast sharply with the three most highly valued qualifications which women of the late 1980s and early 1990s ‘‘bubble era’’ of soaring land and stock prices used to covet in their potential mates, namely, high income, high educational background and high height—the features dubbed the ‘‘three highs’’ in those days.
   
The latest poll found that only 12.3% said they want to marry men with high incomes, moving the income dimension down to ninth place among various desirable qualifications they want their partners to have.
   
Educational background dived to 19th place, while the high height qualification plummeted to 20th place, according to the poll.
   
Responding to the question on what ‘‘ideal annual incomes’’ of their marriage partners would be, the women said an average 5.52 million yen ($61,139 USD) would be enough.
   
But they said if they really love the men, an average 2.71 million yen ($30, 015 USD)  would be enough.
   
The poll also found that 96.8% of the single female workers acknowledged having felt angst about their future.

Source: www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/