Something I Learned Today

While reading an article on Japanese picture brides, I came upon this:

Not surprisingly, Japanese men seeking wives exerted considerable effort to present themselves in the best possible light, particularly as attractive, wealthy, well-educated prospects who had taken on the North American emblems of successful manhood. Thus, their letters to future brides often contained rosy stories of their living conditions, and the enclosed photographs often showed prospective husbands wearing black suits, white "high collar" shirts, and at times a homburg. Some interviewees even indicated that they had heard stories of men who had posed in front of a mansion or even the Hotel Vancouver, implying that they either lived in or owned the property.

Hahaha, can you imagine standing in front of the Hotel Vancouver claiming it was your own?
Now, can you imagine the bride's surprise when she met her husband for the first time? And then she and her new 'beau's shack was in the middle of nowhere (literally), with the bride having to do half her husband's job (not to mention her own domestic duties), raising her children, living in complete poverty and then having to obey to suck her husband's dick whenever he wanted it.

Anyway, apparently after spotting their shabby husbands from the boat deck, some of the brides would refuse to leave the ship and sailed back to Japan.