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Touko Shirakawa
Journalist and Writer
Ms. Shirakawa was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Keio University. She specializes in women's lifestyles by generation, singledom and late marriage, the falling birthrate, and working women interviews, and is a leading authority in covering the marriage agency industry. She writes for several business magazines such as "Nikkei Business Associe," "President," and "Nikkei Business Online." She has advocated "konkatsu (marriage hunting)" along with Professor Masahiro Yamada of Chuo University, and their co-authored "Konkatsu Jidai (the Era of Marriage Hunting)" (Discover 21) was a hit, selling 170,000 copies. The word "konkatsu" had a huge impact on society and was even nominated for the "buzzword of the year" award for 2008.
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