On September 4, TV personality Chiaki shared her views on age-gap marriage on Fuji TV’s “Nonstop!” The segment tied into the network’s drama “Last Note,” which portrays a couple with a 19-year age gap; Chiaki herself remarried a TV station employee 15 years her junior back in 2016. However, it was revealed in October 2024 that the marriage had already ended in divorce years earlier. Opinions split on 5ch, with some taking a permissive stance (“do whatever you like”) and others urging caution, noting it’s “still an outlier percentage-wise” and that “if the genders were reversed, people would probably object.”
Chiaki on age-gap marriage: “It’s no different from international marriage” — she herself remarried a man 15 years younger, saying “It’s not that unusual”
On the 4th, TV personality Chiaki shared her thoughts on age-gap marriage on Fuji TV’s “Nonstop!” Chiaki has experience of her own, having remarried a TV station employee 15 years her junior in 2016.
The discussion was prompted by the network’s drama “Last Note,” which depicts a couple with a 19-year age gap.
Thread title correction — I accidentally used the source's incorrect title as-is. ✕ "a 15-year-old man" ○ "a man 15 years younger"
40AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:47
Re: #6 So it's straight from the original article, huh lol
8AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:31
Finding age-gap marriages creepy is a universal thing
9AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:31
They're not minors hiding behind the law — let them do what they want. They're adults, so age shouldn't matter as long as both sides are into each other.
10AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:31
Most people complaining about age-gap marriages are just jealous
11AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:33
I got matched with someone 9 years younger through a marriage agency. I'm 52. Not bad for my "stats"…
25AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:36
Re: #11 If she's 43 that's still believable I guess. Didn't work out for me though — mine was 8 years younger.
30AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:37
Re: #11 At 43 she's basically no different from 50
31AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:37
Re: #11 Congrats! Well, as long as she's also over 40 that's fine I guess
12AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:33
> She remarried a TV station employee 15 years her junior in '16, but in October '24 revealed she'd already divorced him years earlier.
Wait, she'd gotten divorced again?
54AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:53
Re: #12 She's 54 now, so I guess they split around 50. A lot of women still look young in their 40s but hit "grandma mode" around 50.
13AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:34
It's because it's rare. Also, these days the age gap between married couples keeps shrinking — people are marrying within their own generation. Anyone who marries someone drastically older gets mocked by their friends, whether it's a man or a woman.
14AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:34
If the genders were reversed, people would probably call it creepy and object
15AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:34
If he's really a 15-year-old boy(♂), he's probably got the stamina to go five rounds straight without stopping (crude slang for marathon sex)
20AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:35
Different school, but my wife has been my girlfriend since we were classmates in high school, so I don't really get the whole "age gap" concept
26AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:36
Didn't know she'd remarried and then divorced again
32AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:39
Re: #11 You should've phrased that as "matched with a 9-year-old" for the joke to really land
34AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:39
If it had lasted it'd be a heartwarming story, but in the end everybody involved ends up splitting anyway
35AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:40
It's fine when the woman is younger. The other way around is a no-go.
37AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:41
15 years younger? So that puts him around my age. I want to marry Chiaki 💍
39AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:46
15 years, huh… so the "Heisei-born now fair game" rule that applies to her ex-husband's comedy troupe kicks in too. Birds of a feather — the troupe's something else, and so's the ex-wife (referencing the Yamamoto-gundan troupe's running joke about dating much younger women).
41AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:47
I still don't get why Chiaki and Endo ever got married. I mean, Endo from the Yamamoto troupe could've had his pick of way more options, with women lining up… though I have heard Chiaki was exactly his type, looks-wise.
42AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:47
I'm 54, but I got helped at the counter by a cute girl in her 20s speaking Kochi dialect — can I propose to her? ᥬ🥺ᩤ
45AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:48
Was that "Shin the bro"? He was pretty old too
47AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:49
Men, seriously — marry a woman at least 10 years younger than you. Just having a young wife alone makes other men envious of you, way more than you'd expect. A young wife has the stamina to power through housework and childcare without complaint. Even after I retire, my wife will keep working and earning for another 10 years. If I collapse, she'll be there to nurse me. I'll probably die first, but when I do, she'll handle everything afterward. Age-gap marriage really is nothing but good news for men.
48AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:49
Married on a whim, and already twice-divorced?
56AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:55
These past few years, seeing an old guy with a woman in her 20s at a love hotel isn't rare at all! At the lounges of upscale hotels in Roppongi or Akasaka, about half the couples are like that. The age gap is usually around 30 years. These days, the only people making a fuss about age-gap marriage are old men and old women (lol)
60AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:57
Back in the Taisho era, 30-year age-gap marriages (second wives, mistresses) were completely normal. Age-gap marriage isn't a problem at all — it's the present day that's the anomaly.
69AnonymousSep 4, 2026 13:02
Re: #60 Back then, no matter the age gap, no matter how socially awkward someone was, no matter what disability they had, being married beat being single — so people found partners. These days, if a woman actually chooses to marry some old guy, of course her parents will object and people will look at her like she's strange.
61AnonymousSep 4, 2026 12:58
Shibusawa Eiichi kept a mistress 40 years his junior
65AnonymousSep 4, 2026 13:01
Shibusawa Eiichi was fathering children with women in their 20s even in his 70s. You could say men chase after young women no matter how old they get.
68AnonymousSep 4, 2026 13:02
Re: #65 Surely a 70-year-old can't still father kids, right? lol
70AnonymousSep 4, 2026 13:04
Re: #69 I bet "Don Juan" is thinking the same thing from the afterlife (referencing the elderly Japanese millionaire nicknamed "Don Juan" who married a much younger woman)
72AnonymousSep 4, 2026 13:05
Re: #70 Only weird women come after guys like that. The only real winner is Kato-chan (comedian Kato Cha, known for a happy age-gap marriage)
Background and points of debate
Chiaki remarried a TV station employee 15 years her junior in 2016, but revealed in October 2024 that they had “already divorced years earlier” — this “age-gap marriage” comment was made against that backdrop. What split opinion in the thread wasn’t so much approval or disapproval of the age gap itself, but a difference in temperature between the “it’s a personal choice” camp and the “statistically still a minority” camp. Alongside the permissive view that people should do as they like, there were pointed remarks that it’s still an outlier by the numbers, and that reactions would likely differ if the genders were reversed (an older woman with a younger man) — a reminder that tolerance for age-gap marriage tends to be applied asymmetrically by gender, something easy to overlook. Historical examples of age-gap marriage, such as anecdotes about Shibusawa Eiichi, were also raised, though no one noted that the very necessity of marriage itself was framed differently back then than it is today.
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