In the past, in Japan, arranged marriages meant a couple is forced to marry because of family relations between two parties, but today, we are free to choose whether to marry even after we meet each other in arranged meetings. In that sense, arranged marriages still play an important role in modern society. In fact, it is more important than it was in the past. Let me explain why.

 

First of all, arranged marriages are very helpful to single people who are busy all the time at work. It is common today that workers are forced to work overtime, or they often have to go to work even on weekends. People with busy schedules like this don't have the time and opportunity to meet and date potential partners, so they have trouble finding a soul mate. Arranged marriages can help those people, and find a right one who have something in common with each other. In most cases, the other partner is also looking for someone who he or she wants to marry, so it can save a lot of time and trouble to find a right marriage partner.

 

Second, with high technology today, we have more opportunities to meet new friends or possible marriage partners on online-matchmaking sites. Once you register in one of these sites, you see there are thousands of profiles available online. All you have to do is to hit a keyboard and put your personal information like your job or interest. The site almost instantly finds potential dates who have the same interest as yours. Of course, there are some drawbacks about such online dating sites like fraud, but more and more people are using the internet today, and arranged dates online will be more popular and many people will marry in this form of arranged marriage.

 

For these reasons, arranged marriages still have a place in modern society. It is often said that arranged marriages are more stable than romance marriages, so our traditional value like arranged marriage is not a thing of the past.