Question: How frequent is the male equivalent of this type of bride who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage and that rural Japanese men have begun taking from he Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other Asian countries in the mid 1980s?

T.K.V. Rajan, a well- known archaeologist and media personality is the Founder - Director of Indian Science Monitor and Indo-Asian Foundation of Archaeological Research.  The Foundation conducts expeditions, seminars and interactions with archaeologists from different Asian countries to strengthen age-old cultural ties among Asian countries.  While he was studying  post graduate in  ancient history and archeology at the University of Madras and later working as a journalist, Rajan lectured on Indian archeology and  organized exhibitions at the British Council and Max Muller Bhavan, Lalith Kala Academy, Chennai.  As an Archaeologist, Rajan has been concerned about the impact of science and technology on the traditional Indian society.  Rajan has also presented “Our Buried Past”, a documentary serial for Madras Doordarshan.  Recently, his audio-visual exhibitions presented for the concerned public have created an impressive impact on the viewers.  His exhibition on “Ancient Tamil civilization in Sri Lanka”, brought out a message why India and Sri Lanka should come together beyond political boundaries for conserving the age old link.  Reviews about this exhibition appeared favourably both in and Sri Lanka.  He unveiled “Christ and Krishna”, a curious archaeological presentation at Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Irvine, Texas, which explored the recent archaeological research of these Great Gods whose teaching run parallel in many aspects.  His archaeological exhibition and power point presentation on "In Search of Krishna" presented in Bangalore, Mayapur,New Delhi, Chennai, Coimbatore and Dallas USA received appreciations. <SEP> Japan foreign marriage is a phenomenon occurring in rural Japan.  The phenomenon has created a new industry of foreign marriage brokering that uses both local governments and private organizations to facilitate the immigration of foreign brides.  This is largely a result of an aging population in Japan where approximately 20% of the population is over the age of 65, which is exceptionally high, a fertility rate of only 1.3, and increased opportunities for women and increased costs in child care.  Since the mid 1980s, rural Japanese men have begun taking foreign brides, mainly those from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other Asian countries, as a way of countering the reduced number of women who are of marriageable, childbearing age that are willing to marry rural Japanese men. <SEP> Sri Lanka is a source and destination country for men and women trafficked for the purposes of involuntary servitude and commercial sexual exploitation.  Sri Lankan men and women migrate willingly to Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and South Korea to work as construction workers, domestic servants, or garment factory workers.  However, some find themselves in situations of involuntary servitude when faced with restrictions on movement, withholding of passports, threats, physical or sexual abuse, and debt bondage that is, in some instances, facilitated by large pre-departure fees imposed by recruitment agents.  Children are trafficked internally for commercial sexual exploitation and, less frequently, for forced labor.  The designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continued to recruit, sometimes forcibly, children for use as soldiers in areas outside the Sri Lankan government’s control.  Government security forces may also be complicit in letting a pro-government paramilitary organization recruit, sometimes forcibly, child soldiers.  Reports also indicate that a small number of women from Thailand, China, Russia, and other countries of the Newly Independent States are trafficked into Sri Lanka for commercial sexual exploitation.  In November 2007, over 100 Sri Lankan peacekeeping soldiers were repatriated based on accusations that they engaged in sexual misconduct, some cases involving minors, in Haiti.  The Government of Sri Lanka does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so.  Sri Lanka is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for failing to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons over the previous year, particularly in the area of law enforcement. <SEP> A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage.  In nineteenth-century America, mail-order brides came from well-developed areas on the Eastern seaboard to marry men in Western frontier lands.  In the twentieth century, the trend was towards women living in developing countries seeking men in more developed nations.  In the twenty-first century, the trend is now based primarily on internet-based meeting places which do not per se qualify as mail-order bride services.  The majority of the women listed in the twentieth-century and twenty-first-century services are from Southeast Asia, countries of the former Eastern Bloc and (to a lesser extent) from Latin America.  Since the collapse of the Soviet Union large numbers of eastern European women have advertised themselves in such a way, primarily from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.  Men who list themselves in such publications are referred to as "mail-order husbands," although this is much less common.