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Tokyo government dating app achieves 265 marriages
The app had 16,000 registered members and 760 couples in serious relationships, government data showed.
- Tokyo's government-run AI matchmaking app, Tokyo Enmusubi, has facilitated 265 marriages since its September 2024 launch to address Japan's declining birth rate.
- Officials launched the platform after a survey revealed around 70 percent of people interested in marriage were not actively matchmaking, amid Japan's demographic crisis.
- The app has 16,000 registered members, filtered from around 36,000 applicants, with 760 couples in serious relationships as of June 30; all applicants must prove they are legally single and pass an online interview.
- User "Turtle" joined "as a last chance" before her 40th birthday and married after meeting her husband in late August; another user, "Skytree," credited the app's compatibility scoring for encouraging him to meet people.
- The state-run dating platform represents an unusual policy intervention, signaling how urgently Japan's demographic crisis has pushed the government into territory typically occupied by private tech companies.
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265 couples who met through an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered dating app launched by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 2024 in an effort to boost the country's birth rate have tied the knot in the Japanese capital, official data shows.
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